Set-back model of division-synchronization: optimal spacing of thermal shocks that accelerate cell cycling. |
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Authors: | D W Rooney J P Costello |
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Institution: | Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63103, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Monte Carlo simulations have been used to predict the dependence of synchrony on the timing of periodic thermal shocks that synchronize division by cell cycle set-backs. In many of the simulations each set-back augmented the subsequent rate of progression of individual cells through the division cycle. In this study a subtle error in previous synchronization simulations was corrected. The simulations show that whether or not set-backs affect subsequent cell-cycling rates the degree of synchrony attained is acutely dependent on the spacing of thermal shocks administered once per division. Set-back-dependent increases in division-cycling rates usually decrease the difference between maximum and minimum synchrony. According to the simulations the more cell cycle rates between shocks are augmented by set-back the shorter the optimum time span between shocks. Whether or not set-backs affect subsequent division-cycling rates the intershock time span providing maximum synchrony allows cell number to precisely double. |
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