Robust control of initiation of prokaryotic chromosome replication: Essential considerations for a minimal cell

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 575-584

  Browning, Samuel T ^a   Castellanos, Mariajosé ^b   Shuler, Michael L ^b  

^a Bank of America   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

DnaA; Essential; Initiation of chromosome replication; Mathematical models; Minimal cell

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ATP BINDING SITES; MINIMAL CELL MODEL; PROKARYOTIC CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; STOCHASTIC VARIATIONS;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA A;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION INITIATION; DNA BINDING; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; GENOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 10644267448     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.20223     Document Type: Article

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