A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6767, 2000, Pages 335-338

  Elowitz, Michael B ^a   Leibier, Stanislas ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034688173     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35002125     Document Type: Article

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