Figure 3.

Protein production and degradation. (A) Shown is a schematic of a simple protein production-degradation system with production rate ρ and degradation rate δ. (B) Shown is a plot of eigenvalues over time for the protein production-degradation system. There is one dominating eigenvalue, and it matches the analytical result. (C) Shown is the plot of eigenvector percent from the dominating eigenvalue of (B). The production rate ρ dominates at early time points, but at stationarity, the production rate and degradation rate contribute equally. Note: the eigenvector percent is the absolute value of the parameter component. To see this figure in color, go online.