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Microenvironmental cooperation promotes early spread and bistability of a Warburg-like phenotype.


ABSTRACT: We introduce an in silico model for the initial spread of an aberrant phenotype with Warburg-like overflow metabolism within a healthy homeostatic tissue in contact with a nutrient reservoir (the blood), aimed at characterizing the role of the microenvironment for aberrant growth. Accounting for cellular metabolic activity, competition for nutrients, spatial diffusion and their feedbacks on aberrant replication and death rates, we obtain a phase portrait where distinct asymptotic whole-tissue states are found upon varying the tissue-blood turnover rate and the level of blood-borne primary nutrient. Over a broad range of parameters, the spreading dynamics is bistable as random fluctuations can impact the final state of the tissue. Such a behaviour turns out to be linked to the re-cycling of overflow products by non-aberrant cells. Quantitative insight on the overall emerging picture is provided by a spatially homogeneous version of the model.

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-de-Cossio-Diaz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5465218 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Microenvironmental cooperation promotes early spread and bistability of a Warburg-like phenotype.

Fernandez-de-Cossio-Diaz Jorge J   De Martino Andrea A   Mulet Roberto R  

Scientific reports 20170608 1


We introduce an in silico model for the initial spread of an aberrant phenotype with Warburg-like overflow metabolism within a healthy homeostatic tissue in contact with a nutrient reservoir (the blood), aimed at characterizing the role of the microenvironment for aberrant growth. Accounting for cellular metabolic activity, competition for nutrients, spatial diffusion and their feedbacks on aberrant replication and death rates, we obtain a phase portrait where distinct asymptotic whole-tissue st  ...[more]

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