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转录再起始对基因表达中噪声的控制

Control of noise in gene expression by transcriptional reinitiation

Rajesh Karmakar

摘要:

基因表达是一个随机或噪声的过程。该过程由几个随机事件组成,其中RNAP重新启动转录是一个重要的事件。RNAP分子只有在启动子被转录因子激活后才能结合基因。几个转录因子与启动子结合,使基因处于激活状态。当结合的转录因子离开启动子时,基因变成失活状态。在该基因的活跃期,许多RNAP分子转录该基因以合成mRNA。RNAP与基因活性状态的结合事件是一个概率过程,因此在mRNA和蛋白质水平上引入了噪声或波动。本文从mRNA和蛋白质水平解析计算了Fano因子,并结合RNAP在基因转录过程中的结合事件,精确计算了mRNA数目的概率分布。蛋白质Fano因子的解析计算表达式与实验结果吻合良好。然后,我们表明,在mRNA水平的Fano因子可以亚泊松由于RNAP转录的重新启动和平均mRNA水平可以增加而不增加Fano因子。我们的研究表明,Fano因子也可以减少,保持mRNA水平固定。我们发现,转录的重新启动可以表现为一个微调的控制过程,以调节细胞中的mRNA/蛋白质水平。

英文摘要:

Gene expression is a random or noisy process. The process consists of several random events among which the reinitiation of transcription by RNAP is an important one. The RNAP molecules can bind the gene only after the promoter gets activated by transcription factors. Several transcription factors bind the promoter to put the gene in the active state. The gene turns into inactive state as the bound transcription factors leave the promoter. During the active period of the gene, many RNAP molecules transcribe the gene to synthesize the mRNAs. The binding event of RNAP to the active state of the gene is a probabilistic process and therefore, introduces noise or fluctuations in the mRNA and protein levels. In this paper, we analytically calculate the Fano factor in mRNA and protein levels and also the probability distribution of mRNA numbers exactly with the binding event of RNAPs in gene transcription process. The analytically calculated expression of Fano factor of proteins shows excellent agreement with an experimental result. Then we show that the Fano factor in mRNA levels can be sub-Poissonian due to the reinitiation of transcription by RNAP and the mean mRNA level can be increased without increasing the Fano factor. Our study show that the Fano factor can also be reduced keeping mRNA levels fixed. We find that the reinitiation of transcription can behave as a fine-tuned control process to regulate the mRNA/protein level in the cell.

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