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ReviewBiophysical journal2013

Systems biophysics of gene expression.

Jose M G Vilar, Leonor Saiz

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Review in Biophysical journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Actionable Forecasting as a Determinant of Biological Adaptation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  4. Robustness of DNA looping across multiple cell divisions in individual bacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  8. From biophysics to 'omics and systems biology.European biophysics journal : EBJ · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jose M G VilarBiophysics Unit CSIC-UPV/EHU and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain. j.vilar@ikerbasque.org
Leonor Saiz

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene expression is a process central to any form of life. It involves multiple temporal and functional scales that extend from specific protein-DNA interactions to the coordinated regulation of multiple genes in response to intracellular and extracellular changes. This diversity in scales poses fundamental challenges to the use of traditional approaches to fully understand even the simplest gene expression systems. Recent advances in computational systems biophysics have provided promising avenues to reliably integrate the molecular detail of biophysical process into the system behavior. Here, we review recent advances in the description of gene regulation as a system of biophysical processes that extend from specific protein-DNA interactions to the combinatorial assembly of nucleoprotein complexes. There is now basic mechanistic understanding on how promoters controlled by multiple, local and distal, DNA binding sites for transcription factors can actively control transcriptional noise, cell-to-cell variability, and other properties of gene regulation, including precision and flexibility of the transcriptional responses.

Indexed as

Models, GeneticTranscription, GeneticAnimalsBacteriaBiophysical PhenomenaHumansLac OperonRetinoid X ReceptorsSystems BiologyRetinoid X Receptors

Identifiers

PMID23790365
PMCPMC3686343

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