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Theory of Robustness of Irreversible Differentiation in a Stem Cell System: Chaos Hypothesis

✍ Scribed by CHIKARA FURUSAWA; KUNIHIKO KANEKO

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
568 KB
Volume
209
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5193

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✦ Synopsis

Based on an extensive study of a dynamical systems model of the development of a cell society, a novel theory for stem cell differentiation and its regulation is proposed as the "chaos hypothesis". Two fundamental features of stem cell systems-stochastic differentiation of stem cells and the robustness of a system due to regulation of this differentiation-are found to be general properties of a system of interacting cells exhibiting chaotic intra-cellular reaction dynamics and cell division, whose presence does not depend on the detail of the model. It is found that stem cells differentiate into other cell types stochastically due to a dynamical instability caused by cell-cell interactions, in a manner described by the Isologous Diversification theory. This developmental process is shown to be stable not only with respect to molecular fluctuations but also with respect to the removal of cells. With this developmental process, the irreversible loss of multipotency accompanying the change from a stem cell to a differentiated cell is shown to be characterized by a decrease in the chemical diversity in the cell and of the complexity of the cellular dynamics. The relationship between the division speed and the loss of multipotency is also discussed. Using our model, some predictions that can be tested experimentally are made for a stem cell system.

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