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ArticleBulletin of mathematical biology2020

Statistics of Nascent and Mature RNA Fluctuations in a Stochastic Model of Transcriptional Initiation, Elongation, Pausing, and Termination.

Tatiana Filatova, Nikola Popovic, Ramon Grima

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Article in Bulletin of mathematical biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Tatiana FilatovaSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Nikola PopovicSchool of Mathematics and Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Ramon GrimaSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Ramon.Grima@ed.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-1266-8169

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Abstract

Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy have made it possible to measure the fluctuations of nascent (actively transcribed) RNA. These closely reflect transcription kinetics, as opposed to conventional measurements of mature (cellular) RNA, whose kinetics is affected by additional processes downstream of transcription. Here, we formulate a stochastic model which describes promoter switching, initiation, elongation, premature detachment, pausing, and termination while being analytically tractable. We derive exact closed-form expressions for the mean and variance of nascent RNA fluctuations on gene segments, as well as of total nascent RNA on a gene. We also obtain exact expressions for the first two moments of mature RNA fluctuations and approximate distributions for total numbers of nascent and mature RNA. Our results, which are verified by stochastic simulation, uncover the explicit dependence of the statistics of both types of RNA on transcriptional parameters and potentially provide a means to estimate parameter values from experimental data.

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Models, GeneticTranscription, GeneticComputer SimulationDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesKineticsMathematical ConceptsModels, BiologicalPromoter Regions, GeneticRNARNA, FungalSaccharomyces cerevisiaeStochastic ProcessesTranscription Elongation, GeneticTranscription Initiation, GeneticTranscription Termination, GeneticDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesRNARNA, FungalDistributions of RNA moleculesMaster equationRNA fluctuationsSingular perturbation theoryStochastic gene expressionStochastic simulations

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PMID33351158
PMCPMC7755674

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