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ArticleScience advances2025

Growth rate controls the sensitivity of gene regulatory circuits.

Thomas Julou, Théo Gervais, Daan de Groot, Erik van Nimwegen

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Article in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Resource-use plasticity governs the causal relationship between traits and community structure in model microbial communities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Effective bet-hedging through growth rate dependent stability.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Thomas JulouBiozentrum, University of Basel, and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7123-198X
Théo GervaisBiozentrum, University of Basel, and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6364-6720
Daan de GrootBiozentrum, University of Basel, and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7070-8950
Erik van NimwegenBiozentrum, University of Basel, and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6338-1312

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbes adapt to their environments using gene regulatory switches that sense environmental signals and induce target genes in response. Mathematical modeling predicts that, because growth rate sets the intracellular dilution rate, the sensitivity of regulatory switches to chemical cues systematically decreases with growth rate. We experimentally validate that the concentration of inducer required to activate

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Escherichia coliGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGene Regulatory NetworksGlucoseLac OperonLactoseGlucoseLactose

Identifiers

PMID40279435
PMCPMC12024649

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