PMID: 6163477Jan 1, 1981Paper

RNA metabolism during a developmental process. Modeling by Boolean functions and automata theory

Biochimie
P Tarroux, P Berreur

Abstract

This work describes a model for simulation of rRNA and polyA(+)mRNA evolution during a developmental process - the wing disc differentiation of an Insect, Pieris Brassicae. The model was constructed in two sections: --a logical section built around a logical network of genetic regulations for RNA synthesis and degradation. We postulated the existence of clock pulses, which act as specific stages of development on parameters determining the accumulation and disappearance of the different RNA classes. A simple model was thus able to account for the complex variations of the studied macromolecules during the differentiation phase. --an analogical section, to account for and calculate the accumulation of terminal gene products. This part of the model was based on essential features of the automata theory. In addition, the relations between clock pulses, biological rhythms and their alteration during diapause are discussed. Diapause and emergence from diapause were included in the above model for RNA metabolism. This model enabled us to compute the time at which particular events take place and the stages of synthesis of the main RNA classes. We evaluated the synthesis and degradation rates of these different classes of molecules. T...Continue Reading

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Jan 1, 1975·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·L PuckettJ E Darnell
Jul 1, 1966·Medical & Biological Engineering·F A Roberge, J H Milsum

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