Multiple transcription auto regulatory loops can act as robust oscillators and decision-making motifs

Autor: Rajamanickam Murugan, Gabriel Kreiman
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Vol 20, Iss , Pp 5115-5135 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2001-0370
DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2022.08.065
Popis: Response time decides how fast a gene can react against an external signal at the transcription level in a signalling cascade. The steady state protein levels of the responding genes decide the coupling between two consecutive members of a signalling cascade. A negative autoregulatory loop (NARL) present in a transcription factor network can speed up the response time of the regulated gene at the cost of reduced steady state protein level. We present here a multi NARL motif which can be tuned for both the steady state protein level as well as response time in the required direction. Remarkably, there exists an optimum Hill coefficient nopt ≅4 at which the response time of the NARL motif is at minimum. When the Hill coefficient is n
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