Poisson distributions in stochastic dynamics of gene expression: What events do they count?
- Authors
- Lee, Julian
- Issue Date
- Nov-2023
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Keywords
- Gene regulatory network; Stochastic fluctuation; Poisson distribution
- Citation
- PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, v.630
- Journal Title
- PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
- Volume
- 630
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/44642
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physa.2023.129201
- ISSN
- 0378-4371
- Abstract
- The Poisson distribution is the probability distribution of the number of independent events in a given period. Although the Poisson distribution appears ubiquitously in various stochastic dynamics of gene expression, both as time-dependent distributions and stationary distributions, underlying independent events that give rise to such distributions have not been clear, especially in the presence of the degradation of gene products, which is not a Poisson process. I show that the variable following the Poisson distribution is the number of independent events where biomolecules are created, destined to survive until the end of a given time duration. This new viewpoint enables me to rederive the Poisson distribution as a time-dependent probability distribution for molecule numbers in various monomolecular reaction models of stochastic gene dynamics. Additionally, it allows me to derive an analytic form of the time dependent probability distribution for multispecies monomolecular reaction models with species whose lifetimes follow nonexponential distributions, which is the convolution of the Poisson distribution with the multinomial distribution. This distribution is then utilized for deriving a novel series expansion form of a time-dependent distribution for a model with a stochastic production rate.
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