Figure 9
From: Noise propagation through extracellular signaling leads to fluctuations in gene expression
The effect of different factors on the extent and evolution of spatially heterogeneous noise as measured by the Fano factor of the DDX58 distribution. In both plots the black circles are for results of a simulation without modification from the main text. In (A) the threshold number of bound receptors at which the induced gene has half-maximum expression (see text) is varied. We display results when the threshold is set at 5% (blue circles) and 10% (green circles) of the total number of receptors. In (B) the effect of the temporal fluctuations in the secreted IFN-β is removed by doing a simulation with all the infected cells producing IFN-β at the same time. The results are shown as red circles. The Fano factor remains large due to spatial heterogeneity.