@article{84049ca8e7ad429894f100046ba995ee,
title = "Combining protein and mRNA quantification to decipher transcriptional regulation",
abstract = "We combine immunofluorescence and single-molecule fluorescence in situ hybridization (smFISH), followed by automated image analysis, to quantify the concentration of nuclear transcription factors, number of transcription factors bound, and number of nascent mRNAs synthesized at individual gene loci. A theoretical model is used to decipher how transcription factor binding modulates the stochastic kinetics of mRNA production. We demonstrate this approach by examining the regulation of hunchback in the early Drosophila embryo.",
author = "Heng Xu and Sep{\'u}lveda, {Leonardo A.} and Lauren Figard and Sokac, {Anna Marie} and Ido Golding",
note = "We thank J. Reinitz (University of Chicago) for the gift of anti-Hb antibody, and the following people for their generous advice: A. Boettiger, J. Elf, H. Garcia, D. Larson, S. Little, J. Ma, A. Raj, A. Sanchez, E. Segal, D. van Dijk and all members of the Golding and Sokac labs. Work in the Golding lab was supported by grants from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH R01 GM082837), US National Science Foundation (PHY 1147498, PHY 1430124 and PHY 1427654) and Welch Foundation (Q-1759). H.X. is supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface. A.M.S. and L.F. are supported by a grant from the NIH (R01 GM115111), a Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research (CIBR) Center Seed Award and the Curtis Hankamer Basic Research Fund Award from Baylor College of Medicine. We gratefully acknowledge the computing resources provided by the CIBR Center of Baylor College of Medicine.",
year = "2015",
month = jul,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1038/nmeth.3446",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "12",
pages = "739--742",
journal = "Nature Methods",
issn = "1548-7091",
publisher = "American Chemical Society",
number = "8",
}