Nonlinear Sciences – Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
1995-04-04
Nonlinear Sciences
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
12 pages, uuencoded compressed ps file, to appear in Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life
Scientific paper
A novel theory for cell differentiation is proposed, based on simulations with interacting artificial cells which have metabolic networks within, and divide into two when the final product is accumulated. Results of simulations with coupled chemical networks and division process lead to the following scenario of the differentiation: Up to some numbers of cells, divisions bring about almost identical cells with synchronized metabolic oscillations. As the number is increased the oscillations lose the synchrony, leading to groups of cells with different phases of oscillations. At later stage this differentiation is fixed in time, and cells spilt into groups with different chemical constituents spontaneously, which are transmitted to daughter cells by cell divisions. Hierarchical differentiation, origin of stem cells, and anomalous differentiation by transplantations are also discussed with relevance to real biological experimental results. (Keywords: differentiation, metabolic network, cell division, clustering, open chaos)
Kaneko Kunihiko
Yomo Tetsuya
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