Rules for biological regulation based on error minimization

Details Rules for biological regulation based on error minimization Rules for biological regulation based on error minimization

2010-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/1007.4521v1

PNAS March 14, 2006 vol. 103 no. 11 3999-4004

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

biological physics, complex networks, systems biology, transcriptional regulation http://www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/tlusty/p

Scientific paper

10.1073/pnas.0506610103

The control of gene expression involves complex mechanisms that show large variation in design. For example, genes can be turned on either by the binding of an activator (positive control) or the unbinding of a repressor (negative control). What determines the choice of mode of control for each gene? This study proposes rules for gene regulation based on the assumption that free regulatory sites are exposed to nonspecific binding errors, whereas sites bound to their cognate regulators are protected from errors. Hence, the selected mechanisms keep the sites bound to their designated regulators for most of the time, thus minimizing fitness-reducing errors. This offers an explanation of the empirically demonstrated Savageau demand rule: Genes that are needed often in the natural environment tend to be regulated by activators, and rarely needed genes tend to be regulated by repressors; in both cases, sites are bound for most of the time, and errors are minimized. The fitness advantage of error minimization appears to be readily selectable. The present approach can also generate rules for multi-regulator systems. The error-minimization framework raises several experimentally testable hypotheses. It may also apply to other biological regulation systems, such as those involving protein-protein interactions.

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