Journal
MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES
Volume 223, Issue 1, Pages 1-11Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2009.10.007
Keywords
Gene expression; Gene regulatory network; Stochastic; Time delay
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- Academy of Finland [126803]
- Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation [40284/08]
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Gene expression and gene regulatory networks dynamics are stochastic. The noise in the temporal amounts of proteins and RNA molecules in cells arises from the stochasticity, of transcription initiation and elongation (e.g., due to RNA polymerase pausing), translation, and post-transcriptional regulation mechanisms, such as reversible phosphorylation and splicing. This is further enhanced by the fact that most RNA molecules and proteins exist in cells in very small amounts. Recently, the time needed for transcription and translation to be completed once initiated were shown to affect the stochasticity in gene networks. This observation stressed the need of either introducing explicit delays in models of transcription and translation or to model processes such as elongation at the single nucleotide level. Here we review stochastic and delayed stochastic models of gene expression and gene regulatory networks. We first present stochastic non-delayed and delayed models of transcription, followed by models at the single nuclecitide level. Next, we present models of gene regulatory networks, describe the dynamics of specific stochastic gene networks and available simulators to implement these models. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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