Control de la variabilidad de los transcritos en las células de mamíferos individuales

Nico Battich1, Thomas Stoeger1, Lucas Pelkmans2

  • 1Faculty of Sciences, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland; Systems Biology PhD Program, Life Science Zurich Graduate School, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

Cell
|December 22, 2015
PubMed
Resumen

La variabilidad celular es en su mayoría predecible, no aleatoria. Los procesos nucleares amortiguan el ruido de expresión génica, asegurando la estabilidad de la abundancia de la transcripción citoplasmática en las células humanas.

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