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Cell Fates as High-Dimensional Attractor States of a Complex Gene Regulatory Network
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Cells in multicellular organisms switch between distinct cell fates, such as proliferation or differentiation into specialized cell types. Genome-wide gene regulatory networks govern this behavior. Theoretical studies of complex networks suggest that they can exhibit ordered (stable) dynamics, raising the possibility that cell fates may represent high-dimensional attractor states. We used gene expression profiling to show that trajectories of neutrophil differentiation converge to a common state from different directions of a 2773-dimensional gene expression state space, providing the first experimental evidence for a high-dimensional stable attractor that represents a distinct cellular phenotype.
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“In this context, differentiating cells descend toward stable regions of the network (attractor states), characterized by restricted gene expression, whereas metastable cells broadly sample the network, maintaining higher differentiation potential (47).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Huang, S., Eichler, G., Bar-Yam, Y., & Ingber, D. E.
- Affiliations
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2005-04-01
- Volume
- 94
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 128701-128701
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2141545875
- Cited by
- 775
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 42 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 42 · 2020: 56 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 54 · 2017: 39 · 2016: 34 · 2015: 32 · 2014: 34 · 2013: 42 · 2012: 26
- FWCI
- 10.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Keywords
- cell fate, gene regulatory networks, granulocytic differentiation, cell phenotype, gene expression profiling, network theory
- MeSH terms
- Cell Differentiation, Dimethyl Sulfoxide, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Neutrophils, RNA, Messenger, Tretinoin, HL-60 Cells, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Gene Expression Profiling
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