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Amplitude metrics for cellular circadian bioluminescence reporters.

Abstract：

:Bioluminescence rhythms from cellular reporters have become the most common method used to quantify oscillations in circadian gene expression. These experimental systems can reveal phase and amplitude change resulting from circadian disturbances, and can be used in conjunction with mathematical models to lend further insight into the mechanistic basis of clock amplitude regulation. However, bioluminescence experiments track the mean output from thousands of noisy, uncoupled oscillators, obscuring the direct effect of a given stimulus on the genetic regulatory network. In many cases, it is unclear whether changes in amplitude are due to individual changes in gene expression level or to a change in coherence of the population. Although such systems can be modeled using explicit stochastic simulations, these models are computationally cumbersome and limit analytical insight into the mechanisms of amplitude change. We therefore develop theoretical and computational tools to approximate the mean expression level in large populations of noninteracting oscillators, and further define computationally efficient amplitude response calculations to describe phase-dependent amplitude change. At the single-cell level, a mechanistic nonlinear ordinary differential equation model is used to calculate the transient response of each cell to a perturbation, whereas population-level dynamics are captured by coupling this detailed model to a phase density function. Our analysis reveals that amplitude changes mediated at either the individual-cell or the population level can be distinguished in tissue-level bioluminescence data without the need for single-cell measurements. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the method by modeling experimental bioluminescence profiles of light-sensitive fibroblasts, reconciling the conclusions of two seemingly contradictory studies. This modeling framework allows a direct comparison between in vitro bioluminescence experiments and in silico ordinary differential equation models, and will lead to a better quantitative understanding of the factors that affect clock amplitude.

journal_name

Biophys J

journal_title

Biophysical journal

authors

St John PC,Taylor SR,Abel JH,Doyle FJ 3rd

doi

10.1016/j.bpj.2014.10.026

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-12-02 00:00:00

pages

2712-22

issue

eissn

0006-3495

issn

1542-0086

pii

S0006-3495(14)01103-5

journal_volume

107

pub_type

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Amplitude metrics for cellular circadian bioluminescence reporters.