Biology – Quantitative Biology – Molecular Networks
Scientific paper
2004-11-03
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Molecular Networks
17 pages
Scientific paper
10.1088/1478-3967/2/1/005
A prominent feature of gene transcription regulatory networks is the presence in large numbers of motifs, i.e, patterns of interconnection, in the networks. One such motif is the feed forward loop (FFL) consisting of three genes X, Y and Z. The protein product of x of X controls the synthesis of protein product y of Y. Proteins x and y jointly regulate the synthesis of z proteins from the gene Z. The FFLs, depending on the nature of the regulating interactions, can be of eight different types which can again be classified into two categories: coherent and incoherent. In this paper, we study the noise characteristics of FFLs using the Langevin formalism and the Monte Carlo simulation technique based on the Gillespie algorithm. We calculate the variances around the mean protein levels in the steady states of the FFLs and find that, in the case of coherent FFLs, the most abundant FFL, namely, the Type-1 coherent FFL, is the least noisy. This is however not so in the case of incoherent FFLs. The results suggest possible relationships between noise, functionality and abundance.
Bose Indrani
Ghosh Bhaswar
Karmakar Rajesh
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