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ReviewBiophysical journal2020

Stochastic Modeling of Autoregulatory Genetic Feedback Loops: A Review and Comparative Study.

James Holehouse, Zhixing Cao, Ramon Grima

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Review in Biophysical journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Scaling laws for function diversity and specialization across socioeconomic and biological complex systems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  14. Computation of Single-Cell Metabolite Distributions Using Mixture Models.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

James HolehouseSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Zhixing CaoSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; The Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization for Chemical Processes, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Ramon GrimaSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Electronic address: ramon.grima@ed.ac.uk.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M018040/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M025551/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autoregulatory feedback loops are one of the most common network motifs. A wide variety of stochastic models have been constructed to understand how the fluctuations in protein numbers in these loops are influenced by the kinetic parameters of the main biochemical steps. These models differ according to 1) which subcellular processes are explicitly modeled, 2) the modeling methodology employed (discrete, continuous, or hybrid), and 3) whether they can be analytically solved for the steady-state distribution of protein numbers. We discuss the assumptions and properties of the main models in the literature, summarize our current understanding of the relationship between them, and highlight some of the insights gained through modeling.

Indexed as

Models, GeneticProteinsFeedbackFeedback, PhysiologicalHomeostasisKineticsStochastic ProcessesProteins

Identifiers

PMID32155410
PMCPMC7136347

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