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<h4><br>Safety has always been the eternal theme. When we design a biological treatment system (Figure 4) that may be injected into body, regardless of whether it is traditional genetic engineering and synthetic biology, safety is always the first factor that we need to consider on the top priority.</h4> | <h4><br>Safety has always been the eternal theme. When we design a biological treatment system (Figure 4) that may be injected into body, regardless of whether it is traditional genetic engineering and synthetic biology, safety is always the first factor that we need to consider on the top priority.</h4> | ||
<h4><br>Our system mainly consists of two parts. One is Syn-Notch part: the existence of IL-17A stimulates the deubiquitination of FOXP3, thereby promoting the secretion of anti-inflammatory cytokines. The other one is CAR part: CAR can activate T cells (by strengthening cytokine secretion) and kill B cells in the presence of CD20 (on the surface of mature B cells), thereby reducing the proportion of pro-inflammatory cytokines in inflammatory environment from these two aspects.</h4> | <h4><br>Our system mainly consists of two parts. One is Syn-Notch part: the existence of IL-17A stimulates the deubiquitination of FOXP3, thereby promoting the secretion of anti-inflammatory cytokines. The other one is CAR part: CAR can activate T cells (by strengthening cytokine secretion) and kill B cells in the presence of CD20 (on the surface of mature B cells), thereby reducing the proportion of pro-inflammatory cytokines in inflammatory environment from these two aspects.</h4> | ||
− | <h4>We have combined the model with our project. Considering the behavior of the two coupling systems, we explored the relationships between parameter variations and system security by analyzing the model parameters. | + | <h4><br>We have combined the model with our project. Considering the behavior of the two coupling systems, we explored the relationships between parameter variations and system security by analyzing the model parameters. |
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Revision as of 13:57, 30 October 2017
Introduction
What can modeling do for our project? After careful consideration, our team thinks that what modeling can do does not merely simulate and verify our system though it is important. We hope that with the agency of our modeling, we can find some solutions to the problems we have met or will meet during the process of our project. Thus, we establish “3S” as goals of modeling:
Model to serve, Model to solve, Model for security
Modeling, with its strictness and precision, can be an excellent tool for us to understand the disease and the biological process, and plays an important role in our project. To satisfy our experimental requirements, we created a model of Th17/iTreg differentiation. This model provides a new framework that can be used to analyze the dynamic characteristics of Th17/iTreg differentiation network. In addition, we created a two-variable model for the interactions between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines by establishing ordinary differential equations (ODE). This model can be used to investigate the involvement of cytokines in the disease process. We finally explore the feasibility of our project by coupling the model with our project. Finally, aimed at security, we explored the relationships between our system and RA models.
What did our model achieve?
We achieved 3 main aims in our modelling work
We presented a novel mathematical model of TH17-iTreg differentiation that reveals how the control system generates phenotypic diversity and how its final state can be regulated by various signals.
We created a two-variable model for the interactions between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines, and demonstrateed that mathematical modeling can be used to investigate the involvement of cytokines in the disease process.
We combined the two-variable model with our project to find the method of solving the kinetic parameters of the system, and the relationship between parameters and system security.
All of our models are available on our Github page.
Reciprocal differentiation model | cytokine-mediated inflammation in RA | Exploration |
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A Mathematical Model for the Reciprocal Differentiation of T Helper 17 Cells and Induced Regulatory T Cells
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a two-variable model for the interactions between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in rheumatoid arthritis READ MORE |
a mathematical representation of our SynNotch CAR-Tregs system and exploration of the previous two models
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