First-passage time approach to controlling noise in the timing of intracellular events

KR Ghusinga, JJ Dennehy… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
In the noisy cellular environment, gene products are subject to inherent random fluctuations
in copy numbers over time. How cells ensure precision in the timing of key intracellular …

Effects of cell-cycle-dependent expression on random fluctuations in protein levels

M Soltani, A Singh - Royal Society open science, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Expression of many genes varies as a cell transitions through different cell-cycle stages.
How coupling between stochastic expression and cell cycle impacts cell-to-cell variability …

Optimum threshold minimizes noise in timing of intracellular events

S Kannoly, T Gao, S Dey, N Wang, A Singh… - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
How the noisy expression of regulatory proteins affects timing of intracellular events is an
intriguing fundamental problem that influences diverse cellular processes. Here we use the …

Stochastic timing in gene expression for simple regulatory strategies

AD Co, MC Lagomarsino, M Caselle… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Timing is essential for many cellular processes, from cellular responses to external stimuli to
the cell cycle and circadian clocks. Many of these processes are based on gene expression …

Late-arriving signals contribute less to cell-fate decisions

MG Cortes, JT Trinh, L Zeng, G Balázsi - Biophysical journal, 2017 - cell.com
Gene regulatory networks are largely responsible for cellular decision-making. These
networks sense diverse external signals and respond by adjusting gene expression …

Gene expression noise is affected differentially by feedback in burst frequency and burst size

P Bokes, A Singh - Journal of mathematical biology, 2017 - Springer
Inside individual cells, expression of genes is stochastic across organisms ranging from
bacterial to human cells. A ubiquitous feature of stochastic expression is burst-like synthesis …

Regulatory control and the costs and benefits of biochemical noise

S Tănase-Nicola, PR Ten Wolde - PLoS computational biology, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Experiments in recent years have vividly demonstrated that gene expression can be highly
stochastic. How protein concentration fluctuations affect the growth rate of a population of …

Linking Stochastic Dynamics to Population Distribution:<? format?> An Analytical Framework of Gene Expression

N Friedman, L Cai, XS Xie - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
We present an analytical framework describing the steady-state distribution of protein
concentration in live cells, considering that protein production occurs in random bursts with …

Analytical distributions for detailed models of stochastic gene expression in eukaryotic cells

Z Cao, R Grima - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The stochasticity of gene expression presents significant challenges to the modeling of
genetic networks. A two-state model describing promoter switching, transcription, and …

Delay-induced stochastic oscillations in gene regulation

D Bratsun, D Volfson, LS Tsimring… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
The small number of reactant molecules involved in gene regulation can lead to significant
fluctuations in intracellular mRNA and protein concentrations, and there have been …