What is a transcriptional burst?

E Tunnacliffe, JR Chubb - Trends in Genetics, 2020 - cell.com
The idea that gene activity can be discontinuous will not surprise many biologists–many
genes are restricted in when and where they can be expressed. Yet during the past 15 …

What's luck got to do with it: single cells, multiple fates, and biological nondeterminism

O Symmons, A Raj - Molecular cell, 2016 - cell.com
The field of single-cell biology has morphed from a philosophical digression at its inception,
to a playground for quantitative biologists, to a major area of biomedical research. The last …

Imaging mRNA in vivo, from birth to death

E Tutucci, NM Livingston, RH Singer… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
RNA is the fundamental information transfer system in the cell. The ability to follow single
messenger RNAs (mRNAs) from transcription to degradation with fluorescent probes gives …

Single-molecule kinetics in living cells

J Elf, I Barkefors - Annual review of biochemistry, 2019 - annualreviews.org
In the past decades, advances in microscopy have made it possible to study the dynamics of
individual biomolecules in vitro and resolve intramolecular kinetics that would otherwise be …

SCALE: modeling allele-specific gene expression by single-cell RNA sequencing

Y Jiang, NR Zhang, M Li - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Allele-specific expression is traditionally studied by bulk RNA sequencing, which measures
average expression across cells. Single-cell RNA sequencing allows the comparison of …

Stochastic kinetics of nascent RNA

H Xu, SO Skinner, AM Sokac, I Golding - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
The stochastic kinetics of transcription is typically inferred from the distribution of RNA
numbers in individual cells. However, cellular RNA reflects additional processes …

Distribution shapes govern the discovery of predictive models for gene regulation

B Munsky, G Li, ZR Fox… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Despite substantial experimental and computational efforts, mechanistic modeling remains
more predictive in engineering than in systems biology. The reason for this discrepancy is …

Extrinsic noise and heavy-tailed laws in gene expression

L Ham, RD Brackston, MPH Stumpf - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Noise in gene expression is one of the hallmarks of life at the molecular scale. Here we
derive analytical solutions to a set of models describing the molecular mechanisms …

Coupling gene expression dynamics to cell size dynamics and cell cycle events: Exact and approximate solutions of the extended telegraph model

C Jia, R Grima - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
The standard model describing the fluctuations of mRNA numbers in single cells is the
telegraph model which includes synthesis and degradation of mRNA, and switching of the …

Frequency domain analysis of fluctuations of mRNA and protein copy numbers within a cell lineage: theory and experimental validation

C Jia, R Grima - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
The stochasticity of gene expression is manifested in the fluctuations of messenger
ribonucleic acid and protein copy numbers within a cell lineage over time. While data of this …