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Fluctuations, Correlations and the Estimation of Concentrations inside Cells.
- Source :
- PLoS ONE; 3/10/2016, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p1-20, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Information transmission in cells occurs quite accurately even when concentration changes are “read” by individual binding sites. In this paper we study ligand number and site occupancy fluctuations when ligands diffuse and react going beyond the analyses that focus on their asymptotic decay. In this way we show that, for immobile binding sites, fluctuations in the number of bound molecules decay on a relatively fast scale before the asymptotic behavior kicks in. This result can explain the observed co-existence of highly fluctuating instantaneous transcriptional activities with accumulated mRNA concentrations that have relatively small noise levels. We also show that the initial stages of the decay in the bound molecule number fluctuations have one or two characteristic timescales depending on the concentration of free molecules. This transition can explain the changes in enzyme activity observed at the single molecule level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CELL physiology
BINDING sites
LIGANDS (Biochemistry)
MESSENGER RNA
SINGLE molecules
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 113630913
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151132