title: Effects of bidirectional regulation on noises in gene networks.
abstract: To investigate the effects of bidirectional regulation on the noise in protein concentration, a theoretical and simple three-gene network model is considered. The basic idea behind this model is from Paulsson's proposition (J. Paulsson, Phys. Life Rev. 2005, 2, 157-175), where the synthesis and degradation of a mRNA species corresponding to a target protein are regulated directly and indirectly by a certain sigma-factor, and a random increase in the concentration of the sigma-factor should increase both the synthesis and degradation rates of the mRNA species (bidirectional regulation). Using the standard Omega-expansion technique (linear noise approximation) and Monte Carlo simulation, our main results show clearly that for the steady-state statistics the effects of the noise of the sigma-factor on the stochastic fluctuation of the target protein could partially cancel out.
authors.affiliation: Center for Computational and Evolutionary Biology, Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Xiudeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tao
mesh_terms: D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D013269:Stochastic Processes
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger