Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Noise reduction facilitated by dosage compensation in gene networks

  • Weilin Peng,
  • Ruijie Song,
  • Murat Acar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12959
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Cells must function despite the noisiness of their processes by tolerating or reducing such variability. Here, the authors combine experiment and modelling to show that a network motif that mediates network-dosage compensation also reduces noise in network output, suggesting that noise is tuneable.