Regulation of noise in gene expression

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 469-491

  Sanchez, Alvaro ^a   Choubey, Sandeep ^b   Kondev, Jane ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gene expression noise; mRNA fluctuations; noise mean scaling; phenotypic heterogeneity; promoter architecture; transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL HETEROGENEITY; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST CELL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84877727187     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-083012-130401     Document Type: Article

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