Switching regulatory models of cellular stress response

Guido Sanguinetti, Andreas Ruttor, Manfred Opper, Cedric Archambeau

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract / Description of output

Motivation: Stress response in cells is often mediated by quick activation of transcription factors (TFs). Given the difficulty in experimentally assaying TF activities, several statistical approaches have been proposed to infer them from microarray time courses. However, these approaches often rely on prior assumptions which rule out the rapid responses observed during stress response.

Results: We present a novel statistical model to infer how TFs mediate stress response in cells. The model is based on the assumption that sensory TFs quickly transit between active and inactive states. We therefore model mRNA production using a bistable dynamical systems whose behaviour is described by a system of differential equations driven by a latent stochastic process. We assume the stochastic process to be a two-state continuous time jump process, and devise both an exact solution for the inference problem as well as an efficient approximate algorithm. We evaluate the method on both simulated data and real data describing Escherichia coli's response to sudden oxygen starvation. This highlights both the accuracy of the proposed method and its potential for generating novel hypotheses and testable predictions.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1280-1286
Number of pages7
JournalBioinformatics
Volume25
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2009

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Switching regulatory models of cellular stress response'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this