Quantitative Control of Noise in Mammalian Gene Expression by Dynamic Histone Regulations
Deng Tan, Rui Chen, Yuejian Mo, Shu Ping Gu, Jiao Ma, Wei Qing Xu, Xibin Lu, Huiyu He, Fan Jiang, Weimin Fan, Yili Wang, Xi Xian Chen, Wei Huang
This study investigates how dynamic histone regulations control noise in gene expression by showing that a positive feedback loop between transcriptional activators and histone acetyltransferases generates epigenetic bistability, leading to large noise, which can be reduced by modulating activator binding.
eLife · Aug 11, 2021Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology