Role of network-mediated stochasticity in mammalian drug resistance

oleh: Kevin S. Farquhar, Daniel A. Charlebois, Mariola Szenk, Joseph Cohen, Dmitry Nevozhay, Gábor Balázsi

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-06-01

Deskripsi

The role of gene expression noise in the evolution of drug resistance in mammalian cells is unclear. Here, by uncoupling noise from mean expression of a drug resistance gene in CHO cells the authors show that noisy expression aids adaptation to high drug levels, but delays it at low drug levels.