Supporting Online Material Materials and Methods Som Text Figs. S1 to S3 Table S1 References Robust, Tunable Biological Oscillations from Interlinked Positive and Negative Feedback Loops
Supporting Online Material Materials and Methods Som Text Figs. S1 to S3 Table S1 References Robust, Tunable Biological Oscillations from Interlinked Positive and Negative Feedback Loops
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29. Overlapping buffers in multiple PAs were combined for analysis, which decreased the sample of 306 PAs to 284 buffer areas. Countries and ecoregions with one park were excluded from statistical analysis of median buffer growth rates, although results did not vary with their inclusion. A simple negative feedback loop of interacting genes or proteins has the potential to generate sustained oscillations. However, many biological oscillators also have a positive feedback loop, raising the question of what advantages the extra loop imparts. Through computational studies, we show that it is generally difficult to adjust a negative feedback oscillator's frequency without compromising its amplitude, whereas with positive-plus-negative feedback, one can achieve a widely tunable frequency and near-constant amplitude. This tunability makes the latter design suitable for biological rhythms like heartbeats and cell cycles that need to provide a constant output over a range of frequencies. Positive-plus-negative oscillators also appear to be more robust and easier to evolve, rationalizing why they are found in contexts where an adjustable frequency is unimportant. T he mammalian heart rate is normally established by the sino-atrial node. The node generates constant-amplitude action potentials at a tunable frequency of ~50 to 150 action potentials per minute, depending on the body's oxygen demands. The cell cycle oscillator may also require this combination of an adjustable frequency and invariant amplitude. The period of the cell cycle ranges from about 10 min in rapidly dividing embryos to tens of hours in rapidly dividing somatic cells (and longer in slowly dividing somatic cells), but variations in the amplitude [the peak concentration of active cyclin-dependent kinase-1 (CDK1)] of the oscillations seem neither necessary nor desirable. Two basic types of circuits have been proposed for biological oscillators: (i) those that contain both positive and negative feedback loops and (ii) those containing only negative feedback (Table 1) (1–6). Both the sino-atrial node oscil-lator and the cell cycle oscillator fall into the positive-plus-negative feedback class, suggesting that this design might be better suited for generating oscillations with a tunable frequency and constant amplitude. We tested this idea through computational studies, beginning with an ordinary differential equation model of CDK1 oscillations in the Xenopus embryonic cell cycle (7). The model includes a negative feedback loop [active CDK1 brings about its inactivation through the anaphase-promoting complex (APC)] and a pair of positive feedback loops (active CDK1 activates its acti-vator Cdc25 and inactivates its inhibitor Wee1) (Fig. 1A). …