Protein-mediated DNA Loop Formation and Breakdown in a Fluctuating Environment

Details Protein-mediated DNA Loop Formation and Breakdown in a Fluctuating Environment Protein-mediated DNA Loop Formation and Breakdown in a Fluctuating Environment

2010-02-19

arxiv.org/abs/1002.3809v2

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

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Living cells provide a fluctuating, out-of-equilibrium environment in which genes must coordinate cellular function. DNA looping, which is a common means of regulating transcription, is very much a stochastic process; the loops arise from the thermal motion of the DNA and other fluctuations of the cellular environment. We present single-molecule measurements of DNA loop formation and breakdown when an artificial fluctuating force, applied to mimic a fluctuating cellular environment, is imposed on the DNA. We show that loop formation is greatly enhanced in the presence of noise of only a fraction of $k_B T$, yet find that hypothetical regulatory schemes that employ mechanical tension in the DNA--as a sensitive switch to control transcription--can be surprisingly robust due to a fortuitous cancellation of noise effects.

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