Feedback strategies for threshold crossing of protein levels at a prescribed time

C Nieto, KR Ghusinga, A Singh - 2022 30th Mediterranean …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The timing of diverse cellular processes is based on the instant when the concentration of
regulatory proteins crosses a critical threshold level. Hence, noise mechanisms inherent to …

Regulatory strategies to schedule threshold crossing of protein levels at a prescribed time

C Nieto, KR Ghusinga, A Singh - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The timing of diverse cellular processes is based on the instant when the concentration of
regulatory proteins crosses a critical threshold level. Hence, noise mechanisms inherent to …

Optimal regulation of protein degradation to schedule cellular events with precision

KR Ghusinga, A Singh - 2016 American Control Conference …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An important event in many cellular contexts is the crossing of a prescribed threshold by a
regulatory protein. The timing of such events is stochastic as a consequence of the innate …

Comparing feedback strategies for minimizing noise in gene expression event timing

Z Vahdat, KR Ghusinga, A Singh - 2021 29th Mediterranean …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many cellular events occur when their corresponding regulatory proteins attain critical
thresholds. Can cells schedule such events with precision by controlling the dynamics of the …

Optimal bang–bang feedback for bursty gene expression

I Zabaikina, P Bokes, A Singh - 2020 European Control …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stochasticity in gene expression poses a critical challenge to the precise control of cellular
function. In this paper we examine how precisely can a stochastically expressed protein …

Analysis of stochastic timing of intracellular events with gene switching

KR Ghusinga, A Singh - 2019 Sixth Indian Control Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An important step in execution of several cellular processes is accumulation of a regulatory
protein up to a specific threshold level. Since production of a protein is inherently stochastic …

High cooperativity in negative feedback can amplify noisy gene expression

P Bokes, YT Lin, A Singh - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2018 - Springer
Burst-like synthesis of protein is a significant source of cell-to-cell variability in protein levels.
Negative feedback is a common example of a regulatory mechanism by which such …

Maintaining gene expression levels by positive feedback in burst size in the presence of infinitesimal delay

P Bokes - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Synthesis of individual molecules in the expression of genes often occurs in bursts of
multiple copies. Gene regulatory feedback can affect the frequency with which these bursts …

First-passage time calculations for a gene expression model

KR Ghusinga, A Singh - 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The stochastic nature of gene expression can lead to significant cell-to-cell variability in the
time at which a certain protein level is attained. This is reflected in the timing of cellular …

Optimal auto-regulation to minimize first-passage time variability in protein level

KR Ghusinga, PW Fok, A Singh - 2015 American Control …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The timing of cellular events is inherently random because of the probabilistic nature of gene
expression. Yet cells manage to have precise timing of important events. Here, we study …