A constructive approach to gene expression dynamics

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2004.07.045zbMATH Open1209.92019arXivq-bio/0406052OpenAlexW2015988291MaRDI QIDQ2425759FDOQ2425759

J. C. Nacher, Tatsuya Akutsu, T. Ochiai

Publication date: 7 May 2008

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The advent of new experimental genomic technologies and the massive increase of DNA sequence information is helping researchers better understand how our genes work. Recently, experiments on mRNA abundance (gene expression) have revealed that gene expression shows a stationary organization described by a power-law distribution (scale-free organization) (i.e., gene expression $k$ decays as $k^{-gamma}$), which is highly conserved in all the major five kingdoms of life, from Bacteria to Human. An underlying gene expression dynamics "rich-travel-more" was suggested to recover that evolutional conservation of transcriptional organization. Here we propose a constructive approach to gene expression dynamics with larger scope. Our gene expression construction restores the stationary state, predicts the power-law exponent for different organisms with natural explanation for small correction at high and low expression levels, describes the intermediate state dynamics (time finite) and elucidates the gene expression stability. This approach requires only one assumption: Markov property.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0406052

zbMATH Keywords

Markov propertyscale-free

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Markov processes (60J99)

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