Challenges in measuring and understanding biological noise

N Eling, MD Morgan, JC Marioni - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Biochemical reactions are intrinsically stochastic, leading to variation in the production of
mRNAs and proteins within cells. In the scientific literature, this source of variation is typically …

Types and functions of heterogeneity in mycobacteria

ES Chung, WC Johnson, BB Aldridge - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The remarkable ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to survive attacks from the host
immune response and drug treatment is due to the resilience of a few bacilli rather than a …

Nonlinear control of transcription through enhancer–promoter interactions

J Zuin, G Roth, Y Zhan, J Cramard, J Redolfi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Chromosome structure in mammals is thought to regulate transcription by modulating three-
dimensional interactions between enhancers and promoters, notably through CTCF …

Atlas of subcellular RNA localization revealed by APEX-Seq

FM Fazal, S Han, KR Parker, P Kaewsapsak, J Xu… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
We introduce APEX-seq, a method for RNA sequencing based on direct proximity labeling of
RNA using the peroxidase enzyme APEX2. APEX-seq in nine distinct subcellular locales …

A DNA repair pathway can regulate transcriptional noise to promote cell fate transitions

RV Desai, X Chen, B Martin, S Chaturvedi, DW Hwang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Fluctuations have long been known to dynamically shape microstate
distributions in physical systems. Throughout engineering,“dithering” approaches that …

Gene architecture and sequence composition underpin selective dependency of nuclear export of long RNAs on NXF1 and the TREX complex

B Zuckerman, M Ron, M Mikl, E Segal, I Ulitsky - Molecular Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The core components of the nuclear RNA export pathway are thought to be required for
export of virtually all polyadenylated RNAs. Here, we depleted different proteins that act in …

Biophysical modeling with variational autoencoders for bimodal, single-cell RNA sequencing data

M Carilli, G Gorin, Y Choi, T Chari, L Pachter - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
Here we present biVI, which combines the variational autoencoder framework of scVI with
biophysical models describing the transcription and splicing kinetics of RNA molecules. We …

Quantifying how post-transcriptional noise and gene copy number variation bias transcriptional parameter inference from mRNA distributions

X Fu, HP Patel, S Coppola, L Xu, Z Cao, TL Lenstra… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Transcriptional rates are often estimated by fitting the distribution of mature mRNA numbers
measured using smFISH (single molecule fluorescence in situ hybridization) with the …

Mammalian gene expression variability is explained by underlying cell state

R Foreman, R Wollman - Molecular systems biology, 2020 - embopress.org
Gene expression variability in mammalian systems plays an important role in physiological
and pathophysiological conditions. This variability can come from differential regulation …

[HTML][HTML] Manipulating gene expression levels in mammalian cell factories: An outline of synthetic molecular toolboxes to achieve multiplexed control

P Eisenhut, N Marx, G Borsi, M Papež, C Ruggeri… - New …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mammalian cells have developed dedicated molecular mechanisms to tightly control
expression levels of their genes where the specific transcriptomic signature across all genes …