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ArticlePhysical review letters2010

Information-optimal transcriptional response to oscillatory driving.

Andrew Mugler, Aleksandra M Walczak, Chris H Wiggins

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Article in Physical review letters, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Quantifying information of intracellular signaling: progress with machine learning.Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain) · 2022
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  2. The many bits of positional information.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Andrew MuglerDepartment of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
Aleksandra M Walczak
Chris H Wiggins

Funding

Nanomedicine development center for mechanobiologyPN2EY016586 · NEI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI DUSTIN, MICHAEL LORAN · 2005 to 2014
$23.0M
NEI NIH HHS PN2 EY016586
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intracellular transmission of information via chemical and transcriptional networks is thwarted by a physical limitation: The finite copy number of the constituent chemical species introduces unavoidable intrinsic noise. Here we solve for the complete probabilistic description of the intrinsically noisy response to an oscillatory driving signal. We derive and numerically verify a number of simple scaling laws. Unlike in the case of measuring a static quantity, response to an oscillatory signal can exhibit a resonant frequency which maximizes information transmission. Furthermore, we show that the optimal regulatory design is dependent on biophysical constraints (i.e., the allowed copy number and response time). The resulting phase diagram illustrates under what conditions threshold regulation outperforms linear regulation.

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BiophysicsIntracellular FluidModels, StatisticalOscillometryProbability

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PMID20867954
PMCPMC3662809

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