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 …

HIV-1: to splice or not to splice, that is the question

A Emery, R Swanstrom - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The transcription of the HIV-1 provirus results in only one type of transcript—full length
genomic RNA. To make the mRNA transcripts for the accessory proteins Tat and Rev, the …

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 …

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 …

Engineered deletions of HIV replicate conditionally to reduce disease in nonhuman primates

FNN Pitchai, EJ Tanner, N Khetan, G Vasen, C Levrel… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Antiviral therapies with reduced frequencies of administration and high barriers to resistance
remain a major goal. For HIV, theories have proposed that viral-deletion variants, which …

[HTML][HTML] Principles for the design of multicellular engineered living systems

O Aydin, AP Passaro, R Raman, SE Spellicy… - APL …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Remarkable progress in bioengineering over the past two decades has enabled the
formulation of fundamental design principles for a variety of medical and non-medical …

Transcriptional stochasticity as a key aspect of HIV-1 latency

A Damour, V Slaninova, O Radulescu, E Bertrand… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review summarizes current advances in the role of transcriptional stochasticity in HIV-1
latency, which were possible in a large part due to the development of single-cell …

[HTML][HTML] The life and death of RNA across temperatures

A Becskei, S Rahaman - Computational and structural biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Temperature is an environmental condition that has a pervasive effect on cells along with all
the molecules and reactions in them. The mechanisms by which prototypical RNA molecules …

TASOR epigenetic repressor cooperates with a CNOT1 RNA degradation pathway to repress HIV

R Matkovic, M Morel, S Lanciano, P Larrous… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Human Silencing Hub (HUSH) complex constituted of TASOR, MPP8 and
Periphilin recruits the histone methyl-transferase SETDB1 to spread H3K9me3 repressive …

Dynamic nanopore long-read sequencing analysis of HIV-1 splicing events during the early steps of infection

N Nguyen Quang, S Goudey, E Ségéral, A Mohammad… - Retrovirology, 2020 - Springer
Background Alternative splicing is a key step in Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-
1) replication that is tightly regulated both temporally and spatially. More than 50 different …