Paper about noise...
Molecular Systems Biology 5 Article number: 318 doi:10.1038/msb.2009.75
Published online: 13 October 2009
Citation: Molecular Systems Biology 5:318
Listening to the noise: random fluctuations reveal gene network parameters
Brian Munsky1, Brooke Trinh2 & Mustafa Khammash3
Complexity in bacterial cell-cell communication: quorum signal integration and subpopulation signaling in the Bacillus subtilis phosphorelay. Bischofs IB (2009) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
* Activity motifs
* principles of timing
* transcriptional control
* yeast
* metabolic networks
Comments:
Promising, but ultimately disappointing. The curve fitting to the mRNA data was not convincing (the shape of the data did not match the fit). Measurements (mRNA and ChIP-chip in particular) should probably have large error bars, bringing fine distinctions in timing or affinity into question. Time resolution was also questionable - the first measurement was taken at 15...
Activity motifs reveal principles of timing in transcriptional control of the yeast metabolic network. Chechik G (2008) Nat Biotechnol.