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STIPS algorithm enables tracking labyrinthine patterns and reveals distinct rhythmic dynamics of actin microridges.

IF 2 4区生物学

Physical biology Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ada862

Bhavna Rajasekaran, Mahendra Sonawane

{"title":"STIPS algorithm enables tracking labyrinthine patterns and reveals distinct rhythmic dynamics of actin microridges.","authors":"Bhavna Rajasekaran, Mahendra Sonawane","doi":"10.1088/1478-3975/ada862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1478-3975/ada862","url":null,"abstract":"Tracking and motion analyses of semi-flexible biopolymer networks from time-lapse microscopy images are important tools that enable quantitative measurements to unravel the dynamic and mechanical properties of biopolymers in living tissues, crucial for understanding their organization and function. Biopolymer networks are challenging to track due to continuous stochastic transitions, such as merges and splits, which cause local neighbourhood rearrangements over short time and length scales. To address this, we propose the STIPS algorithm (Spatio Temporal Information on Pixel Subsets) to track these events by creating pixel subsets that link trajectories across frames. Using this method, we analysed actin-enriched protrusions, or 'microridges,' which form dynamic labyrinthine patterns on squamous cell epithelial surfaces, mimicking 'active Turing-patterns.' Our results reveal two distinct actomyosin-based rhythmic dynamics in neighbouring cells: a common pulsatile mechanism between 2 and 6.25 minutes period governing both fusion and fission events contributing to pattern maintenance, and cell area pulses predominantly exhibiting 10-minutes period.","PeriodicalId":20207,"journal":{"name":"Physical biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142953504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Quantum features of the transport through ion channels in the soft knock-on model.

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Physical biology Pub Date : 2024-12-27 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ad9cde

Mateusz Polakowski, Miłosz Panfil

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Emergence of temporal noise hierarchy in co-regulated genes of multi-output feed-forward loop. 多输出前馈回路共调基因中出现的时间噪声层次结构

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Physical biology Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ad9792

Mintu Nandi

{"title":"Emergence of temporal noise hierarchy in co-regulated genes of multi-output feed-forward loop.","authors":"Mintu Nandi","doi":"10.1088/1478-3975/ad9792","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1478-3975/ad9792","url":null,"abstract":"Natural variations in gene expression, called noise, are fundamental to biological systems. The expression noise can be beneficial or detrimental to cellular functions. While the impact of noise on individual genes is well-established, our understanding of how noise behaves when multiple genes are co-expressed by shared regulatory elements within transcription networks remains elusive. This lack of understanding extends to how the architecture and regulatory features of these networks influence noise. To address this gap, we study the multi-output feed-forward loop motif. The motif is prevalent in bacteria and yeast and influences co-expression of multiple genes by shared transcription factors (TFs). Focusing on a two-output variant of the motif, the present study explores the interplay between its architecture, co-expression (symmetric and asymmetric) patterns of the two genes, and the associated noise dynamics. We employ a stochastic modeling approach to investigate how the binding affinities of the TFs influence symmetric and asymmetric expression patterns and the resulting noise dynamics in the co-expressed genes. This knowledge could guide the development of strategies for manipulating gene expression patterns through targeted modulation of TF binding affinities.","PeriodicalId":20207,"journal":{"name":"Physical biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142732078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Theory of epigenetic switching due to stochastic histone mark loss during DNA replication. DNA 复制过程中随机组蛋白标记丢失导致表观遗传学转换的理论。

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Physical biology Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ad942c

Ander Movilla Miangolarra, Martin Howard

{"title":"Theory of epigenetic switching due to stochastic histone mark loss during DNA replication.","authors":"Ander Movilla Miangolarra, Martin Howard","doi":"10.1088/1478-3975/ad942c","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1478-3975/ad942c","url":null,"abstract":"How much information does a cell inherit from its ancestors beyond its genetic sequence? What are the epigenetic mechanisms that allow this? Despite the rise in available epigenetic data, how such information is inherited through the cell cycle is still not fully understood. Often, epigenetic marks can display bistable behaviour and their bistable state is transmitted to daughter cells through the cell cycle, providing the cell with a form of memory. However, loss-of-memory events also take place, where a daughter cell switches epigenetic state (with respect to the mother cell). Here, we develop a framework to compute these epigenetic switching rates, for the case when they are driven by DNA replication, i.e. the frequency of loss-of-memory events due to replication. We consider the dynamics of histone modifications during the cell cycle deterministically, except at DNA replication, where nucleosomes are randomly distributed between the two daughter DNA strands, which is therefore implemented stochastically. This hybrid stochastic-deterministic approach enables an analytic derivation of the replication-driven switching rate. While retaining great simplicity, this framework can explain experimental switching rate data, establishing its biological importance as a framework to quantitatively study epigenetic inheritance.","PeriodicalId":20207,"journal":{"name":"Physical biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11605279/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142668868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A role of fear on diseased food web model with multiple functional response. 恐惧对具有多重功能反应的病态食物网模型的作用

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Physical biology Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ad9261

Thangavel Megala, Manickasundaram Siva Pradeep, Mehmet Yavuz, Thangaraj Nandha Gopal, Muthuradhinam Sivabalan

{"title":"A role of fear on diseased food web model with multiple functional response.","authors":"Thangavel Megala, Manickasundaram Siva Pradeep, Mehmet Yavuz, Thangaraj Nandha Gopal, Muthuradhinam Sivabalan","doi":"10.1088/1478-3975/ad9261","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1478-3975/ad9261","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyze the role of fear in a three-species non-delayed ecological model that examines the interactions among susceptible prey, infectious (diseased) prey, and predators within a food web. The prey population grows in a logistic manner until it achieves a carrying capacity, reflecting common population dynamics in the absence of predators. Diseased prey is assumed to transmit infection to healthful prey by the use of a Holling type II reaction. Predators, alternatively, are modeled to consume their prey using Beddington-DeAngelis and Crowley-Martin response features. This evaluation specializes in ensuring the non-negativity of solutions, practical constraints on population dynamics, and long-term stability of the system. Each biologically possible equilibrium point is tested to understand the environmental stable states. Local stability is assessed through eigenvalue analysis, while global stability of positive equilibria is evaluated by the use of Lyapunov features to determine the overall stability of the model. Furthermore, Hopf bifurcation is explored primarily based on infection rateɛ. Numerical simulations are carried out to validate the theoretical effects and offer practical insights into the model behaviour under specific conditions.","PeriodicalId":20207,"journal":{"name":"Physical biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142625959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Two fitness inference schemes compared using allele frequencies from 1068 391 sequences sampled in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. 利用 COVID-19 大流行期间在英国采样的 1,068,391 个序列中的等位基因频率，比较了两种适应性推断方案。

IF 2 4区生物学

Physical biology Pub Date : 2024-11-21 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ad9213

Hong-Li Zeng, Cheng-Long Yang, Bo Jing, John Barton, Erik Aurell

{"title":"Two fitness inference schemes compared using allele frequencies from 1068 391 sequences sampled in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Hong-Li Zeng, Cheng-Long Yang, Bo Jing, John Barton, Erik Aurell","doi":"10.1088/1478-3975/ad9213","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1478-3975/ad9213","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the course of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, genetic variation has contributed to the spread and persistence of the virus. For example, various mutations have allowed SARS-CoV-2 to escape antibody neutralization or to bind more strongly to the receptors that it uses to enter human cells. Here, we compared two methods that estimate the fitness effects of viral mutations using the abundant sequence data gathered over the course of the pandemic. Both approaches are grounded in population genetics theory but with different assumptions. One approach, tQLE, features an epistatic fitness landscape and assumes that alleles are nearly in linkage equilibrium. Another approach, MPL, assumes a simple, additive fitness landscape, but allows for any level of correlation between alleles. We characterized differences in the distributions of fitness values inferred by each approach and in the ranks of fitness values that they assign to sequences across time. We find that in a large fraction of weeks the two methods are in good agreement as to their top-ranked sequences, i.e. as to which sequences observed that week are most fit. We also find that agreement between the ranking of sequences varies with genetic unimodality in the population in a given week.","PeriodicalId":20207,"journal":{"name":"Physical biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142626021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unraveling the role of exercise in cancer suppression: insights from a mathematical model. 揭示运动在抑制癌症中的作用：数学模型的启示

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Physical biology Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ad899d

Jay Taylor, T Bagarti, Niraj Kumar

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An exactly solvable model for RNA polymerase during the elongation stage. 延伸阶段 RNA 聚合酶的精确可解模型

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Physical biology Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ad899e

Ngo P N Ngoc, Vladimir Belitsky, Gunter M Schütz

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A theoretical framework for predicting the heterogeneous stiffness map of brain white matter tissue. 预测大脑白质组织异质硬度图的理论框架

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Physical biology Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ad88e4

Poorya Chavoshnejad, Guangfa Li, Akbar Solhtalab, Dehao Liu, Mir Jalil Razavi

{"title":"A theoretical framework for predicting the heterogeneous stiffness map of brain white matter tissue.","authors":"Poorya Chavoshnejad, Guangfa Li, Akbar Solhtalab, Dehao Liu, Mir Jalil Razavi","doi":"10.1088/1478-3975/ad88e4","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1478-3975/ad88e4","url":null,"abstract":"Finding the stiffness map of biological tissues is of great importance in evaluating their healthy or pathological conditions. However, due to the heterogeneity and anisotropy of biological fibrous tissues, this task presents challenges and significant uncertainty when characterized only by single-mode loading experiments. In this study, we propose a new theoretical framework to map the stiffness landscape of fibrous tissues, specifically focusing on brain white matter tissue. Initially, a finite element (FE) model of the fibrous tissue was subjected to six loading cases, and their corresponding stress-strain curves were characterized. By employing multiobjective optimization, the material constants of an equivalent anisotropic material model were inversely extracted to best fit all six loading modes simultaneously. Subsequently, large-scale FE simulations were conducted, incorporating various fiber volume fractions and orientations, to train a convolutional neural network capable of predicting the equivalent anisotropic material properties solely based on the fibrous architecture of any given tissue. The proposed method, leveraging brain fiber tractography, was applied to a localized volume of white matter, demonstrating its effectiveness in precisely mapping the anisotropic behavior of fibrous tissue. In the long-term, the proposed method may find applications in traumatic brain injury, brain folding studies, and neurodegenerative diseases, where accurately capturing the material behavior of the tissue is crucial for simulations and experiments.","PeriodicalId":20207,"journal":{"name":"Physical biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142472872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Variability in individual native fibrin fiber mechanics. 单个原生纤维蛋白纤维力学的变异性

IF 2 4区生物学

Physical biology Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ad899f

Christine C Helms

{"title":"Variability in individual native fibrin fiber mechanics.","authors":"Christine C Helms","doi":"10.1088/1478-3975/ad899f","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1478-3975/ad899f","url":null,"abstract":"Fibrin fibers are important structural elements in blood coagulation. They form a mesh network that acts as a scaffold and imparts mechanical strength to the clot. A review of published work measuring the mechanics of fibrin fibers reveals a range of values for fiber extensibility. This study investigates fibrinogen concentration as a variable responsible for variability in fibrin mechanics. It expands previous work to describe the modulus, strain hardening, extensibility, and the force required for fiber failure when fibers are formed with different fibrinogen concentrations using lateral force atomic force microscopy. Analysis of the mechanical properties showed fibers formed from 1 mg ml-1and 2 mg ml-1fibrinogen had significantly different mechanical properties. To help clarify our findings we developed two behavior profiles to describe individual fiber mechanics. The first describes a fiber with low initial modulus and high extensible, that undergoes significant strain hardening, and has moderate strength. Most fibers formed with 1 mg ml-1fibrinogen had this behavior profile. The second profile describes a fiber with a high initial modulus, minimal strain hardening, high strength, and low extensibility. Most fibrin fibers formed with 2 mg ml-1fibrinogen were described by this second profile. In conclusion, we see a range of behaviors from fibers formed from native fibrinogen molecules but various fibrinogen concentrations. Potential differences in fiber formation are investigated with SEM. It is likely this range of behaviors also occursin vivo. Understanding the variability in mechanical properties could contribute to a deeper understanding of pathophysiology of coagulative disorders.","PeriodicalId":20207,"journal":{"name":"Physical biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142472875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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