Effect of promoter architecture on the cell-to-cell variability in gene expression

Details Effect of promoter architecture on the cell-to-cell variability in gene expression Effect of promoter architecture on the cell-to-cell variability in gene expression

2010-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/1008.1932v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Molecular Networks

35 pages, 6 figures, Submitted

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According to recent experimental evidence, the architecture of a promoter, defined as the number, strength and regulatory role of the operators that control the promoter, plays a major role in determining the level of cell-to-cell variability in gene expression. These quantitative experiments call for a corresponding modeling effort that addresses the question of how changes in promoter architecture affect noise in gene expression in a systematic rather than case-by-case fashion. In this article, we make such a systematic investigation, based on a simple microscopic model of gene regulation that incorporates stochastic effects. In particular, we show how operator strength and operator multiplicity affect this variability. We examine different modes of transcription factor binding to complex promoters (cooperative, independent, simultaneous) and how each of these affects the level of variability in transcription product from cell-to-cell. We propose that direct comparison between in vivo single-cell experiments and theoretical predictions for the moments of the probability distribution of mRNA number per cell can discriminate between different kinetic models of gene regulation.

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