Biology – Quantitative Biology – Molecular Networks
Scientific paper
2004-02-10
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Molecular Networks
15 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX4
Scientific paper
Fluctuations in the measured mRNA levels of unperturbed cells under fixed conditions have often been viewed as an impediment to the extraction of information from expression profiles. Here, we argue that such expression fluctuations should themselves be studied as a source of valuable information about the underlying dynamics of genetic networks. By analyzing microarray data taken from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we demonstrate that correlations in expression fluctuations have a highly statistically significant dependence on gene function, and furthermore exhibit a remarkable scale-free network structure. We therefore present what we view to be the simplest phenomenological model of a genetic network which can account for the presence of biological information in transcript level fluctuations. We proceed to exactly solve this model using a path integral technique and derive several quantitative predictions. Finally, we propose several experiments by which these predictions might be rigorously tested.
Chen William W.
England Jeremy L.
Shakhnovich Eugene I.
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