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Statistical Mechanics of Sloppy Models
Bacterial Cell-Cell Communication and More
Josh Waterfall, Jim Sethna, Steve Winans
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Quorum Sensing•Cell-cell signaling network for monitoring population density
Low population density: pheromone molecule lost to environment.
High density: pheromone is picked up from neighbors and signaling pathway is activated.
Agrobacterium tumefaciens
plant pathogen - transfers oncogenic DNA to plant, co-opting plant machinery to make nutrients.
Quorum triggers sharing of tumor inducing plasmid
pheromone =
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•TraI synthesizes small molecule (OOHL) at low, basal rate•TraR needs OOHL to fold properly•Active TraR turns on transcription of other genes, including traI•Hierarchically regulated by separate systems (opine and phenolic compound metabolism)
OOHL
TraI
TraR
Genes
TraR
TraI
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26 reactions19 chemicals24 rate constants
How to live with 24 free parameters and still make falsifiable predictions???
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24 Parameter “Fit” to Data• Cost ≡ Energy
• Also fit to six other sets of genetic and biochemical experiments (38 data points)
• Still misses data
• Hand-tuning, then fancy optimizations
• How much can the fit parameters vary, and still fit the data? (Will give error bars)
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Ensemble of ModelsWe want to consider not just minimum cost solutions, but all
solutions consistent with the available data. New level of abstraction: statistical mechanics in model space.
Generate an ensemble of states with Boltzmann weights exp(-C/T) and compute for an observable:
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•Huge range of scales from stiff to sloppy : 1 inch = 103 miles•Eigendirections not aligned with bare parameters
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Wide range of natural scales
Eigenvalues – not all parameters are created equal. Range of e20!
Sloppiness – fluctuations in eigenparameters in ensemble up to tens of orders of magnitude!
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Eigenparameter
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Stiffest eigenparameter predominantly bacterial doubling time
Second stiffest adds ratio between production of TraR and degradation of TraR and OOHL
Biological insight from eigenparameters
Bare Parameter
Stiffest Eigenparameter2nd Stiffest Eigenparameter
Bare Parameter
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Predictions for experiments are constrained
Growth factor signaling model
Although rate constant values are wildly undetermined, predictions for new experiments are not (always).
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Other Sloppy systems past, present, future
• Growth Factor Signaling
• Receptor Trafficking
• Translation Dynamics
• Transcription Dynamics
• E-Coli Whole Cell Model
• Nitrogen Cycle in Forests
• Radioactive decay
• Classical Potentials: Molybdenum
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Acknowledgements
Biology:Stephen WinansCathy White
Modeling:Jim SethnaKevin Brown
Funding:NSF ITRDOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship