Tunable signal processing in synthetic MAP kinase cascades |
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Authors: | O'Shaughnessy Ellen C Palani Santhosh Collins James J Sarkar Casim A |
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Institution: | 1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for BioDynamics and Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA 2 Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA 3 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA 4 Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA |
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Abstract: | The flexibility of MAPK cascade responses enables regulation of a vast array of cell fate decisions, but elucidating the mechanisms underlying this plasticity is difficult in endogenous signaling networks. We constructed insulated mammalian MAPK cascades in yeast to explore how intrinsic and extrinsic perturbations affect the flexibility of these synthetic signaling modules. Contrary to biphasic dependence on scaffold concentration, we observe monotonic decreases in signal strength as scaffold concentration increases. We find that augmenting the concentration of sequential kinases can enhance ultrasensitivity and lower the activation threshold. Further, integrating negative regulation and concentration variation can decouple ultrasensitivity and threshold from the strength of the response. Computational analyses show that cascading can generate ultrasensitivity and that natural cascades with different kinase concentrations are innately biased toward their distinct activation profiles. This work demonstrates that tunable signal processing is inherent to minimal MAPK modules and elucidates principles for rational design of synthetic signaling systems. |
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