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2018 ; 14
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Optimizing homeostatic cell renewal in hierarchical tissues
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Alvarado C
; Fider NA
; Wearing HJ
; Komarova NL
PLoS Comput Biol
2018[Feb]; 14
(2
): e1005967
PMID29447149
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In order to maintain homeostasis, mature cells removed from the top compartment
of hierarchical tissues have to be replenished by means of differentiation and
self-renewal events happening in the more primitive compartments. As each cell
division is associated with a risk of mutation, cell division patterns have to be
optimized, in order to minimize or delay the risk of malignancy generation. Here
we study this optimization problem, focusing on the role of division tree length,
that is, the number of layers of cells activated in response to the loss of
terminally differentiated cells, which is related to the balance between
differentiation and self-renewal events in the compartments. Using both
analytical methods and stochastic simulations in a metapopulation-style model, we
find that shorter division trees are advantageous if the objective is to minimize
the total number of one-hit mutants in the cell population. Longer division trees
on the other hand minimize the accumulation of two-hit mutants, which is a more
likely evolutionary goal given the key role played by tumor suppressor genes in
cancer initiation. While division tree length is the most important property
determining mutant accumulation, we also find that increasing the size of
primitive compartments helps to delay two-hit mutant generation.