Theoretical studies on s RNA-mediated regulation in bacteria

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2015-12-22
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SmallRNA(sRNA)-mediatedpost-transcriptionalregulationdiffersfromprotein-mediatedregulation.Throughbasepairing,sRNAcanregulatethetargetmRNAinacatalyticorstoichiometricmanner.Sometheoreticalmodelswerebuiltforcomparisonoftheprotein-mediatedandsRNA-mediatedmodesinthesteady-statebehaviorsandnoiseproperties.ManyexperimentsdemonstratedthatasinglesRNAcanregulateseveralmRNAs,whichcausescrosstalkbetweenthetargets.Here,wefocusonsomemodelsinwhichtwotargetmRNAsaresilencedbythesamesRNAtodiscusstheircrosstalkfeatures.Additionally,thesequence-functionrelationshipofsRNAanditsroleinthekineticprocessofbase-pairinghavebeenhighlightedinmodelbuilding.