Homeostasis in Gene Regulatory Networks
In this paper, we use the framework of infinitesimal homeostasis to study general design principles for the occurrence of homeostasis in gene regulatory networks. We assume that the dynamics of the genes explicitly includes both transcription and translation, keeping track of both mRNA and protein concentrations. Given a GRN we construct an associated Protein-mRNA Network (PRN), where each individual (mRNA and protein) concentration corresponds to a node and the edges are defined in such a way that the PRN becomes a bipartite directed graph. By simultaneously working with the GRN and the PRN we are able to apply our previous results about the classification of homeostasis types (i.e., topologically defined homeostasis generating mechanism) and their corresponding homeostasis patterns. Given an arbitrarily large and complex GRN $\mathcal{G}$ and its associated PRN $\mathcal{R}$, we obtain a correspondence between all the homeostasis types (and homeostasis patterns) of $\mathcal{G}$ and a subset the homeostasis types (and homeostasis patterns) of $\mathcal{R}$. Moreover, we completely characterize the homeostasis types of the PRN that do not have GRN counterparts.
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