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SUBMITTER: Siciliano V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3836244 | biostudies-other | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Siciliano Velia V Garzilli Immacolata I Fracassi Chiara C Criscuolo Stefania S Ventre Simona S di Bernardo Diego D
Nature communications 20130101
miRNAs are small non-coding RNAs able to modulate target gene expression. It has been postulated that miRNAs confer robustness to biological processes, but clear experimental evidence is still missing. Here, using a synthetic biological approach, we demonstrate that microRNAs provide phenotypic robustness to transcriptional regulatory networks by buffering fluctuations in protein levels. We construct a network motif in mammalian cells exhibiting a 'toggle-switch' phenotype in which two alternati ...[more]