Intrinsic limits to gene regulation by global crosstalk
Friedlander T, Prizak R, Guet CC, Barton NH, Tkačik G. 2016. Intrinsic limits to gene regulation by global crosstalk. Nature Communications. 7, 12307.
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Gene regulation relies on the specificity of transcription factor (TF)–DNA interactions. Limited specificity may lead to crosstalk: a regulatory state in which a gene is either incorrectly activated due to noncognate TF–DNA interactions or remains erroneously inactive. As each TF can have numerous interactions with noncognate cis-regulatory elements, crosstalk is inherently a global problem, yet has previously not been studied as such. We construct a theoretical framework to analyse the effects of global crosstalk on gene regulation. We find that crosstalk presents a significant challenge for organisms with low-specificity TFs, such as metazoans. Crosstalk is not easily mitigated by known regulatory schemes acting at equilibrium, including variants of cooperativity and combinatorial regulation. Our results suggest that crosstalk imposes a previously unexplored global constraint on the functioning and evolution of regulatory networks, which is qualitatively distinct from the known constraints that act at the level of individual gene regulatory elements.
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2016-08-04
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Nature Communications
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Nature Publishing Group
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7
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12307
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Friedlander T, Prizak R, Guet CC, Barton NH, Tkačik G. Intrinsic limits to gene regulation by global crosstalk. Nature Communications. 2016;7. doi:10.1038/ncomms12307
Friedlander, T., Prizak, R., Guet, C. C., Barton, N. H., & Tkačik, G. (2016). Intrinsic limits to gene regulation by global crosstalk. Nature Communications. Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12307
Friedlander, Tamar, Roshan Prizak, Calin C Guet, Nicholas H Barton, and Gašper Tkačik. “Intrinsic Limits to Gene Regulation by Global Crosstalk.” Nature Communications. Nature Publishing Group, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12307.
T. Friedlander, R. Prizak, C. C. Guet, N. H. Barton, and G. Tkačik, “Intrinsic limits to gene regulation by global crosstalk,” Nature Communications, vol. 7. Nature Publishing Group, 2016.
Friedlander T, Prizak R, Guet CC, Barton NH, Tkačik G. 2016. Intrinsic limits to gene regulation by global crosstalk. Nature Communications. 7, 12307.
Friedlander, Tamar, et al. “Intrinsic Limits to Gene Regulation by Global Crosstalk.” Nature Communications, vol. 7, 12307, Nature Publishing Group, 2016, doi:10.1038/ncomms12307.
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