Robustness, stability and efficiency of phage λ genetic switch: Dynamical structure analysis

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 785-817

  Zhu, X M ^a   Yin, L ^b   Hood, L ^c   Ao, P ^d  

^a GenMath Corp   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental landscape; Genetic switch; Phage ; Robustness; Stochastic effect

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIFE CYCLE; LYSOGENIZATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRESSOR GENE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THEORY;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, SWITCH; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; LYSOGENY; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 11144321198     PISSN: 02197200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219720004000946     Document Type: Article

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