Oscillatory dynamics in a simple gene regulatory network mediated by small RNAs

More and more experiments show that small RNAs regulate gene expression by repressing translation of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) or degrading mRNAs. In this paper, we incorporate the small RNAs into a simple gene regulatory network and investigate its dynamical behaviors. In addition, we also derive the theoretical results of globally asymptotic stability and provide the sufficient conditions for the oscillation of the simple gene regulatory network, and further demonstrate that the amplitudes against the change of delay in the gene regulatory network are robust.

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