Impulse Control: Temporal Dynamics in Gene Transcription

Overview

Journal Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2011 Mar 19

PMID 21414481

Citations 130

Authors

Nir Yosef

Aviv Regev

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Abstract

Regulatory circuits controlling gene expression constantly rewire to adapt to environmental stimuli, differentiation cues, and disease. We review our current understanding of the temporal dynamics of gene expression in eukaryotes and prokaryotes and the molecular mechanisms that shape them. We delineate several prototypical temporal patterns, including "impulse" (or single-pulse) patterns in response to transient environmental stimuli, sustained (or state-transitioning) patterns in response to developmental cues, and oscillating patterns. We focus on impulse responses and their higher-order temporal organization in regulons and cascades and describe how core protein circuits and cis-regulatory sequences in promoters integrate with chromatin architecture to generate these responses.

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