Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29620524›Full record

ArticleeLife2018

Stochastic tuning of gene expression enables cellular adaptation in the absence of pre-existing regulatory circuitry.

Lydia Freddolino, Jamie Yang, Amir Momen-Roknabadi, Saeed Tavazoie

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Article in eLife, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Adaptation by stochastic tuning of gene expression in mammalian cells.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  9. The Multiscale Wisdom of the Body: Collective Intelligence as a Tractable Interface for Next-Generation Biomedicine.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lydia FreddolinoDepartment of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York City, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5821-4226
Jamie YangDepartment of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York City, United States.
Amir Momen-RoknabadiDepartment of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York City, United States.
Saeed TavazoieDepartment of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York City, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2183-4162

Funding

Systems biological interrogation of bacterial persistenceR01AI077562 · NIAID · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI TAVAZOIE, SAEED F · 2010 to 2024
$6.4M
Towards a cognitive framework for understanding cellular behaviorDP1ES022578 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI TAVAZOIE, SAEED F · 2012 to 2012
$792k
Genome-wide measurement of bacterial transcriptional regulatory statesR00GM097033 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI FREDDOLINO, LYDIA PETRA · 2015 to 2017
$746k
Genome-wide measurement of bacterial transcriptional regulatory statesK99GM097033 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI FREDDOLINO, LYDIA PETRA · 2013 to 2014
$120k
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases R01-AI077562NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI077562NIEHS NIH HHS DP1 ES022578NIGMS NIH HHS K99 GM097033NIGMS NIH HHS K99 (GM097033-01A1)NIGMS NIH HHS R00 GM097033NIH HHS 8DP1ES022578NIH HHS K99 (GM097033-01A1)NIH HHS MSTPNIH HHS R01-AI077562
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells adapt to familiar changes in their environment by activating predefined regulatory programs that establish adaptive gene expression states. These hard-wired pathways, however, may be inadequate for adaptation to environments never encountered before. Here, we reveal evidence for an alternative mode of gene regulation that enables adaptation to adverse conditions without relying on external sensory information or genetically predetermined

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalGene Expression Regulation, FungalGenetic VariationStochastic ProcessesTranscription, GeneticAlgorithmsChromatinGene Regulatory NetworksGenome, FungalModels, GeneticSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsWhole Genome SequencingChromatinSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteinsadaptationchromosomescomputational biologyepigeneticsgene expressiongene expression noisegene regulationS. cerevisiaestochastic tuningstress responsesystems biology

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PMID29620524
PMCPMC5919758

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