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The prenatal-to-postnatal transition is a pivotal process in the life cycle whereby an organism shifts from responding to intrauterine cues to undergoing extrauterine stresses with many physiological adaptations. However, the molecular basis underlying the evolutionarily conserved physiological adaptations remains elusive. Here, we analyze the transcriptomes of seven organs across developmental time points from five mammalian species by constructing computational coexpression networks and report a developmental shift of gene expression at the perinatal stage. The low-to-high and high-to-low expressed genes tightly coalesce in the functional categories and gene regulatory pathways that implicate the physiological adaptions during the prenatal-to-postnatal transition, including lipid metabolism, circadian rhythm, immune response, cell cycle, and cell division. The low-to-high and high-to-low expressed genes around the perinatal stage tend to form the mutually inhibitory toggle switch gene pairs linking the gene regulatory networks in response to the environmental changes. We thus propose the toggle switch model for the developmental shift of gene expression as a mechanic framework to investigate how the physiological adaptations occur during the prenatal-to-postnatal transition.

The Toggle Switch Model for Gene Expression Change during the Prenatal-to-Postnatal Transition in Mammals