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- Title
Restoring circadian gene profiles in clock networks using synthetic feedback control.
- Authors
Foo, Mathias; Akman, Ozgur E.; Bates, Declan G.
- Abstract
The circadian system—an organism's built-in biological clock—is responsible for orchestrating biological processes to adapt to diurnal and seasonal variations. Perturbations to the circadian system (e.g., pathogen attack, sudden environmental change) often result in pathophysiological responses (e.g., jetlag in humans, stunted growth in plants, etc.) In view of this, synthetic biologists are progressively adapting the idea of employing synthetic feedback control circuits to alleviate the effects of perturbations on circadian systems. To facilitate the design of such controllers, suitable models are required. Here, we extend our recently developed model for the plant circadian clock—termed the extended S-System model—to model circadian systems across different kingdoms of life. We then use this modeling strategy to develop a design framework, based on an antithetic integral feedback (AIF) controller, to restore a gene's circadian profile when it is subject to loss-of-function due to external perturbations. The use of the AIF controller is motivated by its recent successful experimental implementation. Our findings provide circadian biologists with a systematic and general modeling and design approach for implementing synthetic feedback control of circadian systems.
- Subjects
MOLECULAR clock; FEEDBACK control systems; CLOCK genes; BIOLOGICAL rhythms; CIRCADIAN rhythms; STUNTED growth; PLANT growth
- Publication
NPJ Systems Biology & Applications, 2022, Vol 8, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2056-7189
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41540-022-00216-x