Joint distribution of protein concentration and cell volume coupled by feedback in dilution

I Zabaikina, P Bokes, A Singh - International Conference on Computational …, 2023 - Springer
We consider a protein that negatively regulates the rate with which a cell grows. Since less
growth means less protein dilution, this mechanism forms a positive feedback loop on the …

Amplification of noisy gene expression by protein burden: An analytical approach

I Zabaikina, Z Zhang, C Nieto, P Bokes… - 2023 American …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The overexpression of many proteins can often have a detrimental impact on cellular growth.
This expression-growth coupling leads to positive feedback-any increase of intracellular …

Heavy-tailed distributions in a stochastic gene autoregulation model

P Bokes - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Synthesis of gene products in bursts of multiple molecular copies is an important source of
gene expression variability. This paper studies large deviations in a Markovian drift-jump …

A Kinetic Finite Volume Discretization of the Multidimensional PIDE Model for Gene Regulatory Networks

MA Vághy, I Otero-Muras, M Pájaro… - Bulletin of Mathematical …, 2024 - Springer
In this paper, a finite volume discretization scheme for partial integro-differential equations
(PIDEs) describing the temporal evolution of protein distribution in gene regulatory networks …

Stochastic gene expression in proliferating cells: Differing noise intensity in single-cell and population perspectives

Z Zhang, I Zabaikina, C Nieto, Z Vahdat, P Bokes… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Random fluctuations (noise) in gene expression can be studied from two complementary
perspectives: following expression in a single cell over time or comparing expression …

Quantifying noise modulation from coupling of stochastic expression to cellular growth: An analytical approach

I Zabaikina, Z Zhang, C Nieto, P Bokes, A Singh - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The overexpression of many proteins can often have a detrimental impact on cellular growth.
This expression-growth coupling leads to positive feedback-any increase of intracellular …

Comparative analysis of noise-attenuation mechanisms in gene expression: From single cells to cell populations

Z Zhang, C Nieto, A Singh - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Negative feedback regulation is a well-known motif for suppressing deleterious fluctuations
in gene product levels. We systematically compare two scenarios where negative feedback …

Optimisation of gene expression noise for cellular persistence against lethal events

P Bokes, A Singh - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2025 - Elsevier
Bacterial cell persistence, crucial for survival under adverse conditions like antibiotic
exposure, is intrinsically linked to stochastic fluctuations in gene expression. Certain genes …

Comparing negative feedback mechanisms in gene expression: From single cells to cell populations

Z Zhang, C Nieto, A Singh - 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Negative feedback regulation is a well-known motif for suppressing deleterious fluctuations
in gene product levels. We systematically compare two scenarios where negative feedback …

Stationary distributions and metastable behaviour for self-regulating proteins with general lifetime distributions

C Çelik, P Bokes, A Singh - … on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, 2020 - Springer
Regulatory molecules such as transcription factors are often present at relatively small copy
numbers in living cells. The copy number of a particular molecule fluctuates in time due to …