Modeling operon dynamics: The tryptophan and lactose operons as paradigms

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 327, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-224

  Mackey, Michael C ^a   Santillán, Moisés ^b   Yildirim, Necmettin ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computational molecular biology; Gene regulatory networks; Nonlinear dynamics

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; LACTOSE; MESSENGER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN;

GENETICS;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACTOSE OPERON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION;

EID: 1842583602     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2003.11.009     Document Type: Article

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