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| author | Zhao, Yi Wytock, Thomas P. Reynolds, Kimberly A. Motter, Adilson E. |
| author_facet | Zhao, Yi Wytock, Thomas P. Reynolds, Kimberly A. Motter, Adilson E. |
| contents | Irreversibility, in which a transient perturbation leaves a system in a new state, is an emergent property in systems of interacting entities. This property has well-established implications in statistical physics but remains underexplored in biological networks, especially for bacteria and other prokaryotes whose regulation of gene expression occurs predominantly at the transcriptional level. Focusing on the reconstructed regulatory network of \emph{Escherichia coli}, we examine network responses to transient single-gene perturbations. We predict irreversibility in numerous cases and find that the incidence of irreversibility increases with the proximity of the perturbed gene to positive circuits in the network. Comparison with experimental data suggests a connection between the predicted irreversibility to transient perturbations and the evolutionary response to permanent perturbations. |
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| spellingShingle | Irreversibility in Bacterial Regulatory Networks Zhao, Yi Wytock, Thomas P. Reynolds, Kimberly A. Motter, Adilson E. Molecular Networks Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Biological Physics Irreversibility, in which a transient perturbation leaves a system in a new state, is an emergent property in systems of interacting entities. This property has well-established implications in statistical physics but remains underexplored in biological networks, especially for bacteria and other prokaryotes whose regulation of gene expression occurs predominantly at the transcriptional level. Focusing on the reconstructed regulatory network of \emph{Escherichia coli}, we examine network responses to transient single-gene perturbations. We predict irreversibility in numerous cases and find that the incidence of irreversibility increases with the proximity of the perturbed gene to positive circuits in the network. Comparison with experimental data suggests a connection between the predicted irreversibility to transient perturbations and the evolutionary response to permanent perturbations. |
| title | Irreversibility in Bacterial Regulatory Networks |
| topic | Molecular Networks Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04513 |