Analysis of a Reduced Model of Epithelial–Mesenchymal Fate Determination in Cancer Metastasis as a Singularly-Perturbed Monotone System

M. Ali Al-Radhawi () and Eduardo D. Sontag ()
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M. Ali Al-Radhawi: Northeastern University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Eduardo D. Sontag: Northeastern University, Departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Departments of Mathematics and Chemical Engineering (affiliate)

A chapter in Realization and Model Reduction of Dynamical Systems, 2022, pp 445-460 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Tumor metastasis is one of the main factors responsible for the high fatality rate of cancer. Metastasis can occur after malignant cells transition from the epithelial phenotype to the mesenchymal phenotype. This transformation allows cells to migrate via the circulatory system and subsequently settle in distant organs after undergoing the reverse transition from the mesenchymal to the epithelial phenotypes. The core gene regulatory network controlling these transitions consists of a system made up of coupled SNAIL/miRNA-34 and ZEB1/miRNA-200 subsystems. In this work, we formulate a mathematical model of the core regulatory motif and analyze its long-term behavior. We start by developing a detailed reaction network with 24 state variables. Assuming fast promoter and mRNA kinetics, we then show how to reduce our model to a monotone four-dimensional system. For the reduced system, monotone dynamical systems theory can be used to prove generic convergence to the set of equilibria for all bounded trajectories. The theory does not apply to the full model, which is not monotone, but we briefly discuss results for singularly-perturbed monotone systems that provide a tool to extend convergence results from reduced to full systems, under appropriate time separation assumptions.

Keywords: Monotone systems; Generic convergence; Cancer metastasis; Epithelial-mesenchymal transition; Model reduction; Singular perturbations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95157-3_24

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