Negative autoregulation speeds the response times of transcription networks

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 323, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 785-793

  Rosenfeld, Nitzan ^a   Elowitz, Michael B ^b   Alon, Uri ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autogenous control; Biophysics; Design principles; Feedback kinetics; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036428761     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00994-4     Document Type: Article

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