Winner-takes-all resource competition redirects cascading cell fate transitions

oleh: Rong Zhang, Hanah Goetz, Juan Melendez-Alvarez, Jiao Li, Tian Ding, Xiao Wang, Xiao-Jun Tian

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01

Deskripsi

Synthetic gene circuits may not function as expected due to the resource competition between modules. Here the authors build cascading bistable switches to achieve two successive cell fate transitions but found a ‘winner-takes-all’ behaviour, which is overcome by a division of labour strategy.