Dissipative structures in biological systems: bistability, oscillations, spatial patterns and waves

A Goldbeter - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The goal of this review article is to assess how relevant is the concept of dissipative structure
for understanding the dynamical bases of non-equilibrium self-organization in biological …

Dynamics of phenotypic heterogeneity associated with EMT and stemness during cancer progression

MK Jolly, T Celià-Terrassa - Journal of clinical medicine, 2019 - mdpi.com
Genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity contribute to the generation of diverse tumor cell
populations, thus enhancing cancer aggressiveness and therapy resistance. Compared to …

The physics of cellular decision making during epithelial–mesenchymal transition

S Tripathi, H Levine, MK Jolly - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process by which cells lose epithelial
traits, such as cell–cell adhesion and apico-basal polarity, and acquire migratory and …

Minimal frustration underlies the usefulness of incomplete regulatory network models in biology

S Tripathi, DA Kessler, H Levine - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Regulatory networks as large and complex as those implicated in cell-fate choice are
expected to exhibit intricate, very high-dimensional dynamics. Cell-fate choice, however, is a …

Multi-synchronization and other patterns of multi-rhythmicity in oscillatory biological systems

A Goldbeter, J Yan - Interface Focus, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
While experimental and theoretical studies have established the prevalence of rhythmic
behaviour at all levels of biological organization, less common is the coexistence between …

A possible role for epigenetic feedback regulation in the dynamics of the epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT)

W Jia, A Deshmukh, SA Mani, MK Jolly… - Physical biology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) often plays a critical role in cancer metastasis
and chemoresistance, and decoding its dynamics is crucial to design effective therapeutics …

Combining a toggle switch and a repressilator within the AC-DC circuit generates distinct dynamical behaviors

R Perez-Carrasco, CP Barnes, Y Schaerli, M Isalan… - Cell systems, 2018 - cell.com
Although the structure of a genetically encoded regulatory circuit is an important determinant
of its function, the relationship between circuit topology and the dynamical behaviors it can …

Incidence of cardiovascular disease in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia phenotype: analysis of 5 years follow-up of real-world data from more than 1.5 …

L Masana, A Zamora, N Plana, M Comas-Cufí… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the statin era, the incidence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD) in
patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) has not been updated. We aimed to …

Computational modeling of the crosstalk between macrophage polarization and tumor cell plasticity in the tumor microenvironment

X Li, MK Jolly, JT George, KJ Pienta, H Levine - Frontiers in oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tumor microenvironments contain multiple cell types interacting among one another via
different signaling pathways. Furthermore, both cancer cells and different immune cells can …

Phenotypic plasticity and cell fate decisions in cancer: insights from dynamical systems theory

D Jia, MK Jolly, P Kulkarni, H Levine - Cancers, 2017 - mdpi.com
Waddington's epigenetic landscape, a famous metaphor in developmental biology, depicts
how a stem cell progresses from an undifferentiated phenotype to a differentiated one. The …