The role of backward cell migration in two-hit mutants’ production in the stem cell niche

Abstract

It has been discovered that there are two stem cell groups in the intestinal crypts: central stem cells (CeSCs), which are at the very bottom of the crypt, and border stem cells (BSCs), which are located between CeSCs and transit amplifying cells (TAs). Moreover, backward cell migration from BSCs to CeSCs has been observed. Recently, a bi-compartmental stochastic model, which includes CeSCs and BSCs, has been developed to investigate the probability of two-hit mutant production in the stem cell niche. In this project, we improve this stochastic model by adding the probability of backward cell migration to the model. The model suggests that the probability of two-hit mutant production increases when the frequency of backward cell migration increases. Furthermore, a small non-zero probability of backward cell migration leads to the largest range of optimal values for the frequency of symmetric divisions and the portion of divisions at each stem cell compartment in terms of delaying 2-hit mutant production. Moreover, the probability of two-hit mutant production is more sensitive to the probability of symmetric divisions than to the rate of backward cell migrations. The highest probability of two-hit mutant production corresponds to the case when all stem cell’s divisions are asymmetric.

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