RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Variability in cellular gene expression profiles and homeostatic regulation JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 021048 DO 10.1101/021048 A1 Yuriy Mishchenko YR 2015 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/12/28/021048.abstract AB One of surprising recent discoveries in biology is that the gene and protein expression profiles in cells with identical genetic and environmental makeup can exhibit large variability. The nature and the significance of this variability had been posed as one of the current fundamental questions of biology. In this letter, we argue that the observed variability in cellular gene and protein expression can be understood as an outcome of homeostatic regulation mechanisms controlling the gene and protein expression profiles.