Nature Genetics 38, 610 - 611 (2006)
doi:10.1038/ng0606-610
Predictable trends in protein noiseKristin Baetz
& Mads Kærn
Kristin Baetz and Mads Kærn are in the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M5, Canada. kbaetz@uottawa.ca and mkaern@uottawa.ca
The process of gene expression is inherently stochastic and leads to differences in protein abundance from one cell to another. A new study shows that this protein noise is unexpectedly predictable, providing important new insights into the properties and origins of variability in gene expression.
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