Diffusion, dimensionality and noise in transcriptional regulation

Details Diffusion, dimensionality and noise in transcriptional regulation Diffusion, dimensionality and noise in transcriptional regulation

2007-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/0712.1852v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Molecular Networks

8 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

The precision of biochemical signaling is limited by randomness in the diffusive arrival of molecules at their targets. For proteins binding to the specific sites on the DNA and regulating transcription, the ability of the proteins to diffuse in one dimension by sliding along the length of the DNA, in addition to their diffusion in bulk solution, would seem to generate a larger target for DNA binding, consequently reducing the noise in the occupancy of the regulatory site. Here we show that this effect is largely cancelled by the enhanced temporal correlations in one dimensional diffusion. With realistic parameters, sliding along DNA has surprisingly little effect on the physical limits to the precision of transcriptional regulation.

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