DNA looping and physical constraints on transcription regulation

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dc.creatorVilar, Jose M. G.
dc.creatorLeibler, Stanislas
dc.date2004-11-11
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dc.descriptionDNA looping participates in transcriptional regulation, for instance, by allowing distal binding sites to act synergistically. Here we study this process and compare different regulatory mechanisms based on repression with and without looping. Within a simple mathematical model for the lac operon, we show that regulation based on DNA looping, in addition to increasing the repression level, can reduce the fluctuations of transcription and, at the same time, decrease the sensitivity to changes in the number of regulatory proteins. Looping is thus able to circumvent some of the constraints inherent to mechanisms based solely on binding to a single operator site and provides a mechanism to regulate not only the average properties of transcription but also its fluctuations.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0411027
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0411027
dc.identifierJ. Mol. Biol. 331, 981-989 (2003)
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/88475
dc.subjectSubcellular Processes
dc.subjectSoft Condensed Matter
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectBiological Physics
dc.titleDNA looping and physical constraints on transcription regulation
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