Chapter 5 Gene Regulation Networks: A Theory For Their Global Structure and Behaviors

Abstract

Publisher Summary This chapter describes that at least some of the tasks the integrated gene control system seems to accomplish are:, (1) to develop a theory that allows to see some ways that controls the system, might work, (2) to discuss the implications of the theory for the kinds of control functions that the molecular mechanisms that regulate transcription, translation, and enzyme activation might follow and that would yield systems whose global behavior is as orderly as cells, (3) to evaluate several predictions from the theory, and (4) to attempt to find the various empirical approaches to test them. The emphasis of the chapter is on the urgent need for theories about the ways, in which integrated genetic control systems might function.