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Auto-regulatory feedback loops are one of the most common network motifs. A wide variety of stochastic models have been constructed to understand how the fluctuations in protein numbers in these loops are influenced by the kinetic…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-22 James Holehouse , Zhixing Cao , Ramon Grima

In biophysics, the search for analytical solutions of stochastic models of cellular processes is often a challenging task. In recent work on models of gene expression, it was shown that a mapping based on partitioning of Poisson arrivals…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Hugo Tschirhart , Thierry Platini

We consider a stochastic model of gene expression in which transcription depends on a multistate promoter, including the famous two-state model and refractory promoters as special cases, and focus on deriving the exact stationary…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Ulysse Herbach

Inside individual cells, expression of genes is inherently stochastic and manifests as cell-to-cell variability or noise in protein copy numbers. Since proteins half-lives can be comparable to the cell-cycle length, randomness in…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-06 Mohammad Soltani , Cesar Augusto Vargas-Garcia , Duarte Antunes , Abhyudai Singh

A general class of stochastic gene expression models with self regulation is considered. One or more genes randomly switch between regulatory states, each having a different mRNA transcription rate. The gene or genes are self regulating…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-30 Jay Newby

Understanding how stochastic gene expression is regulated in biological systems using snapshots of single-cell transcripts requires state-of-the-art methods of computational analysis and statistical inference. A Bayesian approach to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-10 Yen Ting Lin , Nicolas E. Buchler

It is well established that gene expression can be modeled as a Markovian stochastic process and hence proper observables might be subjected to large fluctuations and rare events. Since dynamics is often more than statics, one can work with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Pegah Torkaman , Farhad H. Jafarpour

The intrinsic stochasticity of gene expression can lead to large variability of protein levels across a population of cells. Variability (or noise) in protein distributions can be modulated by cellular mechanisms of gene regulation; in…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2011-03-02 Tao Jia , Rahul V. Kulkarni

In this paper, we consider two stochastic models of gene expression in prokaryotic cells. In the first model, sixteen biochemical reactions involved in transcription, translation and transcriptional regulation in the presence of inducer…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Indrani Bose , Rajesh Karmakar , Siddhartha Roy

Proteins are polymerized by cyclic machines called ribosome which use their messenger RNA (mRNA) track also as the corresponding template and the process is called translation. We explore, in depth and detail, the stochastic nature of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ashok Garai , Debashish Chowdhury , T. V. Ramakrishnan

The intrinsic stochasticity of gene expression can lead to large variations in protein levels across a population of cells. To explain this variability, different sources of mRNA fluctuations ('Poisson' and 'Telegraph' processes) have been…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-03-02 Vlad Elgart , Tao Jia , Rahul V. Kulkarni

Gene transcription is a highly stochastic and dynamic process. As a result, the mRNA copy number of a given gene is heterogeneous both between cells and across time. We present a framework to model gene transcription in populations of cells…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-10 Justine Dattani , Mauricio Barahona

Intrinsic transcriptional noise induced by operator fluctuations is investigated with a simple spin like stochastic model. The effects of transcriptional fluctuations in protein synthesis is probed by coupling transcription and translation…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Guilherme da C. P. Innocentini , Jose E. M. Hornos

The recent development of single-cell transcriptomics has enabled gene expression to be measured in individual cells instead of being population-averaged. Despite this considerable precision improvement, inferring regulatory networks…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-28 Ulysse Herbach , Arnaud Bonnaffoux , Thibault Espinasse , Olivier Gandrillon

Stochastic modeling of transcription is a classic yet long-standing problem in theoretical biophysics. The lack of unified results and a computationally efficient approach for a general, fine-grained transcription model has confined…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Yuntao Lu , Yunxin Zhang

Gene expression and its regulation is a nonequilibrium stochastic process. Different molecules are involved in several biochemical steps in this process with low copies. It is observed that the stochasticity in biochemical processes is…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-22 Rajesh Karmakar

We train a neural network to predict distributional responses in gene expression following genetic perturbations. This is an essential task in early-stage drug discovery, where such responses can offer insights into gene function and inform…

The Poisson distribution is the probability distribution of the number of independent events in a given period of time. Although the Poisson distribution appears ubiquitously in various stochastic dynamics of gene expression, both as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-02 Julian Lee

Stochastic dynamics of chemical reactions in a mutually repressing two-gene circuit is numerically simulated. The circuit has a rich variety of different states when the kinetic change of DNA status is slow. The stochastic switching…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Tomohiro Ushikubo , Wataru Inoue , Mitsumasa Yoda , Masaki Sasai

Stochastic modeling of gene expression is a classic problem in theoretical biophysics, and the burst approximation is widely used to simplify gene expression models formulated via the chemical master equation. However, the approximation…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yuntao Lu , Yunxin Zhang