Quiet Gene Circuit More Fragile Than Its Noisy Peer

نویسندگان

  • Tobias Bollenbach
  • Roy Kishony
چکیده

Why is a particular architecture for a pathway chosen over seemingly equivalent alternatives? Cağatay et al. (2009) use a synthetic biology approach to show that fluctuations--or noise--in protein levels may play a key role in determining which network design is selected during evolution.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Cell

دوره 139  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009