期刊
JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
卷 123, 期 16, 页码 2834-2843出版社
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.069641
关键词
NF-kappa B; TNF alpha; Live-cell imaging; Stochastic processes; Mathematical modelling; Systems biology
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资金
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- Engineering Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [BBD0107481/BBD0088081, BBF0059381/BBF0058141/BBF00561X1, GR/S29256/01]
- Medical Research Council (MRC) [G0500346]
- Professor John Glover Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship
- European Union BIOSIM Network [005137]
- BBSRC REI [BBE0129651]
- BBSRC [BB/F005938/1, BB/F005938/2, BB/F005814/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- EPSRC [EP/C544587/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G0500346] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F005938/2, BB/F005938/1, BB/F005814/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/C544587/1, GR/S29256/01] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0500346] Funding Source: researchfish
Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappa B) signalling is activated by cellular stress and inflammation and regulates cytokine expression. We applied single-cell imaging to investigate dynamic responses to different doses of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha). Lower doses activated fewer cells and those responding showed an increasingly variable delay in the initial NF-kappa B nuclear translocation and associated I. B. degradation. Robust 100 minute nuclear: cytoplasmic NF-kappa B oscillations were observed over a wide range of TNF alpha concentrations. The result is supported by computational analyses, which identified a limit cycle in the system with a stable 100 minute period over a range of stimuli, and indicated no co-operativity in the pathway activation. These results suggest that a stochastic threshold controls functional all-or-nothing responses in individual cells. Deterministic and stochastic models simulated the experimentally observed activation threshold and gave rise to new predictions about the structure of the system and open the way for better mechanistic understanding of physiological TNF alpha activation of inflammatory responses in cells and tissues.
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