Quiet Gene Circuit More Fragile Than Its Noisy Peer
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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