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Computational Analysis Of Transcriptional And Post-Transcriptional Feedback Loops In Development And Cell Differentiation, Benjamin Rigel Nordick
Computational Analysis Of Transcriptional And Post-Transcriptional Feedback Loops In Development And Cell Differentiation, Benjamin Rigel Nordick
Masters Theses
Regulation of gene expression is critical to organism development and health. Positive and negative feedback in networks of gene regulatory interactions are associated with the maintenance of distinct cell states/types or oscillations, respectively. Recent computational studies identified two structures of positive feedback relevant to establishment of cell type: interconnected transcriptional “high-feedback” loops and a purely post-transcriptional feedback loop arising from multiple microRNA molecules cooperatively regulating one mRNA. The goals of this work were to develop methods for analyzing often-unintuitive high-feedback loops in large networks, generalize the two new regulatory structures to consider oscillation, and further explore the ability of post-transcriptional …