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基因调控元件的信息容量

Information capacity of genetic regulatory elements

Gasper Tkacik, Curtis G Callan, William Bialek

摘要:

细胞外部或内部条件的变化通常反映在相关转录因子的浓度上。这些蛋白质反过来调节它们控制下的基因的表达水平,有时需要执行整合多个输入并影响多个基因的非平凡计算。与此同时,即使输入保持不变,受调控基因的活动也会波动,这是系统中固有噪声的结果,而这种噪声必然从根本上限制任何遗传计算的可靠性。在这里,我们使用信息理论来正式的概念,在简单的基因调控元件的存在下,物理现实的噪声源的信息传输。系统地探讨了这种“通道容量”对噪声参数、协同性和制造信号分子的成本的依赖性。我们发现,至少在原则上,高于一位的能力应该是可以实现的,因此遗传调控不限于使用二进制或“开-关”组件。

英文摘要:

Changes in a cell's external or internal conditions are usually reflected in the concentrations of the relevant transcription factors. These proteins in turn modulate the expression levels of the genes under their control and sometimes need to perform non-trivial computations that integrate several inputs and affect multiple genes. At the same time, the activities of the regulated genes would fluctuate even if the inputs were held fixed, as a consequence of the intrinsic noise in the system, and such noise must fundamentally limit the reliability of any genetic computation. Here we use information theory to formalize the notion of information transmission in simple genetic regulatory elements in the presence of physically realistic noise sources. The dependence of this "channel capacity" on noise parameters, cooperativity and cost of making signaling molecules is explored systematically. We find that, at least in principle, capacities higher than one bit should be achievable and that consequently genetic regulation is not limited the use of binary, or "on-off", components.

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