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A deterministic model is used in that situation wherein the result is established straightforwardly from a series of conditions. In a situation wherein the cause and effect relationship is stochastically or randomly determined the stochastic model is used. A deterministic model has no stochastic elements and the entire input and output relation of the model is conclusively determined.
A dynamic model and a static model are included in the deterministic model. All in all, large and rare bursts lead to an asymmetry in the protein production and degradation events, generating a skewed probability density with a large variance, that cannot be approximated by a normal distribution cf.
This disrupts the connection between deterministic fixed points and stochastic modes. Let us consider a system whose size is increased s -fold compared to system Equation 11 i. In this case, the deterministic ODE remains unchanged, since Equation 12 is simply replaced by the identical formulation.
The simulations shown in Figure 2 , where protein distributions of two systems with differing sizes are compared, confirm this result. However, note that from merely locating the deterministic fixed points in a bistable system, one cannot infer the average steady-state of the system, since the probability of a cell to be in one or the other state is unknown.
Figure 2. Influence of the system size on the correspondence between deterministic and stochastic modeling results. Two systems with differing sizes are compared: The volume V 1 of system 1 graphs in light blue is chosen fold smaller than the volume V 2 of system 2 graphs in dark blue , while the protein concentrations at the deterministic fixed points are identical.
The intersections of the blue lines and the red line in the upper plot mark the analytical locations of the extrema in the protein probability mass function. The distributions in the bottom plot obtained using the Gillespie algorithm confirm these results: the larger system shows a clear bimodal distribution whose modes match the stable deterministic fixed points, while the modes of the small system are shifted, and the distribution is much broader.
The dashed lines show that the analytical determination of the modes fits well to the simulations. Parameters are given in the Supplementary Table 2. Next, we will give a qualitative estimate on the local precision i. The recursive formula 15 can be written as. Therefore, the local change of the probability mass function relative to its height is large if.
Under this condition, the local distribution forms sharp peaks around a maximum located at n. In the following, three scenarios will be portrayed which illustrate this result.
They are visualized in Figure 3. Figure 3. Robustness of bimodality in different regulatory systems with feedback. In each column, the robustness of the modes in two regulatory systems with varying burst sizes and varying functions f are compared based on the protein distributions and exemplary protein time-courses.
In all cases, the system marked in dark colors system 1, 3, and 5, respectively exhibits a sharper distribution and a better separation of the modes is visible in the protein time-course simulations. Further explanations are given in the main text. Parameter values are listed in the Supplementary Table 3. The simulated histogram in Figure 3A shows that the system with the larger burst size does indeed have a broader distribution. In this context, cooperative and non-cooperative regulation can be compared cf.
This guarantees that the modes of the probability distributions occur at the same protein molecule numbers. We are thus looking at two non-cooperative systems where the basal rate of protein production and the locations of the modes coincide, while the burst sizes and the curvatures of f 5 and f 6 differ.
Supplementary Material 4 , which counteracts the effect of the differing burst sizes. Explicit calculations are therefore required to determine which effect prevails. Interestingly, Figure 3C shows that the bimodality in the protein distribution of the system with larger bursts is even more precise.
Having addressed the probability mass function in steady state, single protein time-courses are now regarded. In a bimodal system, the robustness of the two stable steady states is crucial for its functionality: The protein level might fluctuate permanently between these states small Mean first-passage times MFPTs of transitions between the inactive and active states, cf.
The trajectories in Figure 3 show that a sharp bimodal distribution qualitatively correlates well with the robustness of the states. In Figure 3A , the fluctuations in the system with the lower burst level are much smaller, leading to more distinct switches between the modes.
The protein level of the system with cooperative feedback in Figure 3B has small noise and stays in the active state, whereas the protein time-course in the non-cooperative circuit does not exhibit a clear separation of the modes. The time-courses in Figure 3C show that even systems with non-cooperative regulation are able to sustain two separate states, given that the nonlinearity of the feedback and the burst size are not too small, which severely contradicts the results of standard deterministic modeling.
In this study, we have compared an ODE model based on the law of mass action with the corresponding CME formulation, implicitly stating that the master equation provides the much more realistic description of the biochemical reaction system.
All deviations of the deterministic from the stochastic model have thus been interpreted as an indication of inadequacy of the ODE formalism. One should still note that the CME, too, is based on several simplifying assumptions. Among these are the random, homogenous distribution of positions AND velocities of reactants, which is only a valid approximation when elastic molecular collisions predominate over reactive ones Nicolis et al.
Hence, we need to point out that although the CME approach often leads to experimentally verifiable results, this cannot be taken for granted. On the other hand, we can state that if significant mathematical deviations of the even more simplistic ODE approach from the CME model are observed, the deterministic description is almost surely unrealistic.
Our study has led to the conclusion that although ODE modeling is quite a convenient and popular approach in many application fields, the use of deterministic models should be treated cautiously in the context of mesoscopic biochemical reaction systems. The connection between deterministic and stochastic modeling has frequently been studied before. Several papers have reported on multi-component reaction systems that are monostable and bimodal, where bimodality is caused by the presence of components with very slow dynamics.
These components can act as multi-level switches on fast downstream components Qian et al. Here, we have focused on nonlinear one-component reaction systems. A related study was previously conducted by Bishop and Qian , where a phosphorylation-dephosphorylation cycle has been analyzed. They have shown that although the one-dimensional deterministic ODE model exhibits monostability, the weak nonlinearity in the reactions has the potential to cause stochastic bimodality, if the system size is sufficiently small.
In their case, one of the stationary modes was invariably located at the zero state, whereas the other one was close to the deterministic steady state. Here, we have systematically analyzed the effects of nonlinearity, but also of large stoichiometric coefficients in a flexible autoregulated gene expression system. In this context, we have proposed a graphical method which visualizes the impact of these system properties on the location of the modes and on their deviation from the deterministic fixed points.
With the help of the graphics, it could be shown that monostable but bimodal systems can be constructed with both modes occurring at positive values, but only if the feedback is cooperative.
We have seen that large stoichiometric coefficients can promote highly asymmetric, irregular fluctuation patterns in the copy numbers of the components. In our example, protein bursts allow for sudden and large increases in the number of protein molecules, whereas single degradation events reduce the number merely by one. Such instant jumps in molecule numbers have been explicitly excluded in the publications by Gillespie, where deterministic and stochastic variables were found to correspond well in sufficiently large systems Gillespie, , We have shown that when all reactions are linear, the mean and the deterministic variable coincide, but skewed fluctuations through large bursts lead to a shift of the mode away from the the mean.
In the presence of nonlinear reaction propensities, the deterministic variable usually differs from the mean, and large bursts can even qualitatively change the modality of the distribution. One could argue that through a more detailed description of the bursting mechanism, large stoichiometric coefficients can to some extent be avoided. Nevertheless, there are components within a cell which usually occur at single-digit amounts e.
As a next step, the interplay of jumps, nonlinearities and reaction time-scales in a multi-component reaction system needs to be evaluated. Our preliminary results not shown indicate that those three factors together can further reduce the comparability of ODE and CME models. This provokes the question of what kind of conclusions can still be drawn from deterministic modeling in small-scale reaction systems.
In some biological contexts, stochasticity plays an important functional role: noise in certain signaling and gene regulation systems can lead to random transitions between different stable state and thus serve to create population heterogeneity, which makes cells more robust toward fluctuating environmental conditions.
In this case, deterministic trajectories are certainly not realistic. But often, uniform cellular behavior can be observed. A coordinated hysteretic switch from one state to another, for example, is only possible if the modes are robustly separated. We have shown that although monostable systems can be bimodal with moderate switching frequency, a more robust bimodality is generated in a regime which is indeed deterministically bistable.
In such cases, deterministic modeling might still provide valuable information on the dynamics of the system. For a more reliable description of biochemical processes in mesoscopic systems, however, we think that the use of stochastic modeling is virtually inevitable. AK supervised the project; AK and SH designed research; SH carried out analysis, simulations, and interpretation; All authors wrote and approved the manuscript.
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