Simulation of Drosophila Circadian Oscillations, Mutations, and Light Responses by a Model with VRI, PDP-1, and CLK

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2786-2802

  Smolen, Paul ^a   Hardin, Paul E ^b   Lo, Brian S ^a   Baxter, Douglas A ^a   Byrne, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PAR DOMAIN PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLK GENE; DARKNESS; DROSOPHILA; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOTE; LIGHT; MODEL; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PDP 1 GENE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; VRI GENE;

DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 2142811057     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74332-5     Document Type: Article

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