Standard methods for assessing mRNA stabilities in intact cells are labor-intensive and can generate half-life (t(1/2)) measures that are both imprecise and inaccurate. We describe modifications to a conventional tetracycline-conditional transcriptional chase method for analyzing mRNA stability that significantly simplify its conduct, while generating highly reproducible and accurate t(1/2) val...

The promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) is involved in many cellular processes including cell cycle progression, DNA damage response, transcriptional regulation, viral infection, and apoptosis. These cellular activities often rely on the localization of PML to unique subnuclear structures known as PML nuclear bodies (NBs). More than 50 cellular proteins are known to traffic in and out of PML N...

Abstract In this work, three genetic regulatory networks are considered, that model the post–transcriptional regulation of PTEN onco–suppressor gene, mediated by microRNAs and competitive endogenous RNAs, in glioblastoma multiforme, most severe brain tumours. We simulate solutions resulting stochastic differential systems discuss effects miRNA–fashioned on expression.

Gene expression is regulated in a context-dependent, cell-type-specific manner. Condition-specific transcription is dependent on the presence of transcription factors (TFs) that can activate or inhibit its target genes (global context). Additional factors, such as chromatin structure, histone, or DNA modifications, also influence the activity of individual target genes (individual context). The...

Boolean Networks are emerging as a simple yet powerful formalism to model and study Gene Regulatory Networks. Nevertheless, the most widely used Boolean Network-based models do not include any post-transcriptional regulation mechanism. In this paper we discuss how the post-transcriptional regulation mechanism mediated by miRNAs can be included in a Boolean Network based model. This contribution...

Post-transcriptional control of mRNA transcript processing by RNA binding proteins (RBPs) is an important step in the regulation of gene expression and protein production. The post-transcriptional regulatory network is similar in complexity to the transcriptional regulatory network and is thought to be organized in RNA regulons, coherent sets of functionally related mRNAs combinatorially regula...

Oestrogen-mediated gene expression is regulated at both the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. The molecular mechanism of transcriptional regulation has been well characterized. On the other hand, there is little understanding of the mechanism of post-transcriptional regulation. To clarify the mechanism of oestrogen-mediated post-transcriptional regulation, we focused on A+U-rich-...