Pulsatile inputs achieve tunable attenuation of gene expression variability and graded multi-gene regulation

Natural transcription factors are often regulated in a pulsatile fashion unlike many synthetic systems. Here the authors show that dynamic pulsatile signals reduce cell-to-cell gene expression variability in an optogenetic construct.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dirk Benzinger, Mustafa Khammash
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05882-2