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Recent studies suggest that PML (Promyelocytic Leukemia) suppresses p53 protein degradation by inhibiting MDM2 protein in the nucleus [1], and regulates a number of biological functions [2]. We modeled a PML-MDM2-p53 regulatory network by…
The regulating mechanism of miRNA on p53 dynamics in p53-MDM2-miRNA model network incorporating reactive oxygen species (ROS) is studied. The study shows that miRNA drives p53 dynamics at various states, namely, stabilized states and…
The p53 protein is well-known for its tumour suppressor function. The p53-MDM2 negative feedback loop constitutes the core module of a network of regulatory interactions activated under cellular stress. In normal cells, the level of p53…
The transcription factor p53 is an important regulator of cell fate. Mutations in p53 gene are associated with many cancers. In response to signals such as DNA damage, p53 controls the transcription of a series of genes that cause cell…
A feedback mechanism that involves the proteins p53 and mdm2, induces cell death as a controled response to severe DNA damage. A minimal model for this mechanism demonstrates that the respone may be dynamic and connected with the time…
The tumor suppressor p53 plays a central role in cell fate decisions after DNA damage. Programmed Cell Death 5 (PDCD5) is known to interact with the p53 pathway to promote cell apoptosis. Recombinant human PDCD5 can significantly sensitize…
We study the temporal and the synchronous behaviours in p53-Mdm2 regulatory network due to the interaction of its complex network components with the nitric oxide molecule. In single cell process, increase in nitric oxide concentration…
We present the mechanism of interaction of Wnt network module, which is responsible for periodic sometogenesis, with p53 regulatory network, which is one of the main regulators of various cellular functions, and switching of various…
We present p53-MDM2-Glucose model to study spatio-temporal properties of the system induced by glucose. The variation in glucose concentration level triggers the system at different states, namely, oscillation death (stabilized), sustain…
We construct a model of cell reprogramming (the conversion of fully differentiated cells to a state of pluripotency, known as induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs) which builds on key elements of cell biology viz. cell cycles and cell…
Specific activator and repressor transcription factors which bind to specific regulator DNA sequences, play an important role in gene activity control. Interactions between genes coding such transcription factors should explain the…
The objective of this paper is to investigate the stability of limit cycles of a mathematical model with a distributed delay which describes the interaction between p53 and mdm2. Choosing the delay as a bifurcation parameter we study the…
We study how the temporal behaviours of p53 and MDM2 are affected by stress inducing bioactive molecules NO (Nitric Oxide) in the p53-MDM2-NO regulatory network. We also study synchronization among a group of identical stress systems…
In multicellular organisms, several cell states coexist. For determining each cell type, cell-cell interactions are often essential, in addition to intracellular gene expression dynamics. Based on dynamical systems theory, we propose a…
Gene regulatory networks, i.e. DNA segments in a cell which interact with each other indirectly through their RNA and protein products, lie at the heart of many important intracellular signal transduction processes. In this paper we analyse…
Basic problems for the construction of a scenario for the Life are discussed. To study the problems in terms of dynamical systems theory, a scheme of intra-inter dynamics is presented. It consists of internal dynamics of a unit, interaction…
SMAR1 is a sensitive signaling molecule in p53 regulatory network which can drive p53 network dynamics to three distinct states, namely, stabilized (two), damped and sustain oscillation states. In the interaction of p53 network with SMAR1,…
Various biological phenomena, like cell differentiation and pattern formation in multicellular organisms, are explained using the bifurcation theory. Molecular network motifs like positive feedback and mutual repressor exhibit bifurcation…
The cell cycle is an orderly sequence of events which ultimately lead to the division of a single cell into two daughter cells. In the case of DNA damage by radiation or chemicals, the damage checkpoints in the $G_{1}$ and $G_{2}$ phases of…