Noisy Delay Denoises Biochemical Oscillators.
Phys Rev Lett
; 132(7): 078402, 2024 Feb 16.
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Genetic oscillations are generated by delayed transcriptional negative feedback loops, wherein repressor proteins inhibit their own synthesis after a temporal production delay. This delay is distributed because it arises from a sequence of noisy processes, including transcription, translocation, translation, and folding. Because the delay determines repression timing and, therefore, oscillation period, it has been commonly believed that delay noise weakens oscillatory dynamics. Here, we demonstrate that noisy delay can surprisingly denoise genetic oscillators. Specifically, moderate delay noise improves the signal-to-noise ratio and sharpens oscillation peaks, all without impacting period and amplitude. We show that this denoising phenomenon occurs in a variety of well-studied genetic oscillators, and we use queueing theory to uncover the universal mechanisms that produce it.
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