Molecular crowding: the history and development of a scientific paradigm

C Alfano, Y Fichou, K Huber, M Weiss, E Spruijt… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
It is now generally accepted that macromolecules do not act in isolation but “live” in a
crowded environment, that is, an environment populated by numerous different molecules …

Real-time single-molecule imaging of transcriptional regulatory networks in living cells

DW Hwang, A Maekiniemi, RH Singer… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Gene regulatory networks drive the specific transcriptional programmes responsible for the
diversification of cell types during the development of multicellular organisms. Although our …

Gene expression model inference from snapshot RNA data using Bayesian non-parametrics

Z Kilic, M Schweiger, C Moyer, D Shepherd… - Nature computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Gene expression models, which are key towards understanding cellular regulatory
response, underlie observations of single-cell transcriptional dynamics. Although RNA …

Systematic inference identifies a major source of heterogeneity in cell signaling dynamics: The rate-limiting step number

DW Kim, H Hong, JK Kim - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Identifying the sources of cell-to-cell variability in signaling dynamics is essential to
understand drug response variability and develop effective therapeutics. However, it is …

Predictive modeling reveals that higher-order cooperativity drives transcriptional repression in a synthetic developmental enhancer

YJ Kim, K Rhee, J Liu, S Jeammet, MA Turner… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
A challenge in quantitative biology is to predict output patterns of gene expression from
knowledge of input transcription factor patterns and from the arrangement of binding sites for …

[HTML][HTML] STREAMING-tag system reveals spatiotemporal relationships between transcriptional regulatory factors and transcriptional activity

H Ohishi, S Shimada, S Uchino, J Li, Y Sato… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transcription is a dynamic process. To detect the dynamic relationship among protein
clusters of RNA polymerase II and coactivators, gene loci, and transcriptional activity, we …

Deciphering a global source of non-genetic heterogeneity in cancer cells

J Zhang, X Han, L Ma, S Xu, Y Lin - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Cell-to-cell variability within a clonal population, also known as non-genetic heterogeneity,
has created significant challenges for intervening with diseases such as cancer. While non …

Mean-field theory accurately captures the variation of copy number distributions across the mRNA life cycle

J Szavits-Nossan, R Grima - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We consider a stochastic model where a gene switches between two states, an mRNA
transcript is released in the active state, and subsequently it undergoes an arbitrary number …

[HTML][HTML] Minimal synthetic enhancers reveal control of the probability of transcriptional engagement and its timing by a morphogen gradient

S Alamos, A Reimer, C Westrum, MA Turner, P Talledo… - Cell systems, 2023 - cell.com
How enhancers interpret morphogen gradients to generate gene expression patterns is a
central question in developmental biology. Recent studies have proposed that enhancers …

Chromatin regulates alternative polyadenylation via the RNA polymerase II elongation rate

JV Geisberg, Z Moqtaderi… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The RNA polymerase II (Pol II) elongation rate influences poly (A) site selection, with slow
and fast Pol II derivatives causing upstream and downstream shifts, respectively, in poly (A) …