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The central regulatory circuit in the gene network controlling the morphogenesis of Drosophila mechanoreceptors: an in silico analysis Full article

Journal Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции
ISSN: 2500-0462 , E-ISSN: 2500-3259
Output data Year: 2023, Volume: 27, Number: 7, Pages: 746-754 Pages count : 9 DOI: 10.18699/vjgb-23-87
Tags central regulatory circuit; gene network; mathematical model; computer modeling; drosophila; achaetescute complex; mutations
Authors Bukharina T.A. 1,2 , Golubyatnikov V.P. 3 , Furman D.P. 1,2
Affiliations
1 Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk State University
2 Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
3 Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Funding (2)

1 Sobolev Institute of Mathematics FWNF-2022-0009
2 Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences FWNR-2022-0020

Abstract: Identification of the mechanisms underlying the genetic control of spatial structure formation is among the relevant tasks of developmental biology. Both experimental and theoretical approaches and methods are used for this purpose, including gene network methodology, as well as mathematical and computer modeling. Reconstruction and analysis of the gene networks that provide the formation of traits allow us to integrate the existing experimental data and to identify the key links and intra-network connections that ensure the function of networks. Mathematical and computer modeling is used to obtain the dynamic characteristics of the studied systems and to predict their state and behavior. An example of the spatial morphological structure is the Drosophila bristle pattern with a strictly defined arrangement of its components – mechanoreceptors (external sensory organs) – on the head and body. The mechanoreceptor develops from a single sensory organ parental cell (SOPC), which is isolated from the ectoderm cells of the imaginal disk. It is distinguished from its surroundings by the highest content of proneural proteins (ASC), the products of the achaete-scute proneural gene complex (AS-C). The SOPC status is determined by the gene network we previously reconstructed and the AS-C is the key component of this network. AS-C activity is controlled by its subnetwork – the central regulatory circuit (CRC) comprising seven genes: AS-C, hairy, senseless (sens), charlatan (chn), scratch (scrt), phyllopod (phyl), and extramacrochaete (emc), as well as their respective proteins. In addition, the CRC includes the accessory proteins Daughterless (DA), Groucho (GRO), Ubiquitin (UB), and Seven-in-absentia (SINA). The paper describes the results of computer modeling of different CRC operation modes. As is shown, a cell is determined as an SOPC when the ASC content increases approximately 2.5-fold relative to the level in the surrounding cells. The hierarchy of the effects of mutations in the CRC genes on the dynamics of ASC protein accumulation is clarified. AS-C as the main CRC component is the most significant. The mutations that decrease the ASC content by more than 40 % lead to the prohibition of SOPC segregation.
Cite: Bukharina T.A. , Golubyatnikov V.P. , Furman D.P.
The central regulatory circuit in the gene network controlling the morphogenesis of Drosophila mechanoreceptors: an in silico analysis
Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции. 2023. V.27. N7. P.746-754. DOI: 10.18699/vjgb-23-87 WOS Scopus РИНЦ OpenAlex
Dates:
Submitted: Jul 18, 2023
Accepted: Sep 25, 2023
Published print: Dec 18, 2023
Published online: Dec 18, 2023
Identifiers:
Web of science: WOS:001140097800004
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85181518833
Elibrary: 56697252
OpenAlex: W4389617412
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