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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 20: Regulation

BP 20.7: Talk

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 11:30–11:45, H 1058

On the role of intrinsic noise on the response of the p53-Mdm2 moduleLidice Cruz1, Nuris Figueroa1, and •Roberto Mulet1,21Group of Complex Systems. Physics Faculty. University of Havana — 2Quantum optics and statistics Institute of Physics Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg

The protein p53 has a well established role in protecting genomic integrity in human cells. In particular, the p53-Mdm2 feedback loop seems to be the key circuit in the response of cells to damage. Recent measurements in individual human cells have shown that p53 and its regulator Mdm2 develop sustained oscillations over long periods of time, with essentially fixed frequency but variable amplitudes. Here, we propose that the noise that stabilizes the fluctuations is the intrinsic noise due to the finite nature of the populations of p53 and Mdm2 in a single cell.

We study three stochastic models of the p53-Mdm2 circuit. The models intend to capture the response of the p53-Mdm2 circuit in its basal state, in the presence of DNA damage, and under oncogenic signals.

We show that the in all the cases the noise induced by the finite size of the populations is responsible for the existence of sustained oscillations in the response of the p53-Mdm2 circuit. This noise alone can explain most of the experimental results obtained studying the dynamics of the p53-Mdm2 circuit in individual cells.

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