How can cells precisely measure time-varying external signals? - Giulia Malaguti
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Giulia Malaguti
Pieter Rein ten Wolde's group
AMOLF, Amsterdam
Quantitative Laws II, Como
June 13th, 2016
How can cells precisely measure
time-varying external signals?
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Cell sensing system is surprisingly accurate
ligand
molecules
receptors
cell surface
readout
molecules
ATP
4.
Cell sensing system is surprisingly accurate
ligand
molecules
receptors
cell surface
readout
moleculesNOISE
NOISE
What is the fundamental limit on the precision
of concentration measurements?
ATP
5.
Cell sensing system is surprisingly accurate
ligand
molecules
receptors
cell surface
readout
moleculesNOISE
NOISE
Berg and Purcell (1977).
Bialek and Setayeshgar (2005).
Ueda and Shibata (2007).
Wang et al. (2007).
Govern and ten Wolde (2012).
Lang et al. (2014).
Kaizu et al. (2014).
Govern and ten Wolde (2014).
Rappel et al. (2008).
Endres and Wingreen (2009)
Mora and Wingreen (2010).
Skoge et al (20112013).
What is the fundamental limit on the precision
of concentration measurements?
ATP
6.
Cell sensing system is surprisingly accurate
ligand
molecules
receptors
cell surface
readout
moleculesNOISE
NOISE
What is the fundamental limit on the precision
of concentration measurements?
When measuring time-varying ligand concentrations!
Timevarying!
ATP
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unbound
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N samples
ATP
# receptors
# readout molecules
power
Cell resources fundamentally limit
the sensing precision
Optimal
resource allocation
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Thank you for
your attention!
AMOLF
Biochemical Networks group
Yao Li Adithya
Vijaykumar
Pieter Rein
ten Wolde
Joris
Paijmans
Michele
Monti
Harmen
Wierenga
Sosuke
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