Design principles of a bacterial signalling network

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7067, 2005, Pages 504-507

  Kollmann, Markus ^a   Løvdok, Linda ^b   Bartholomé, Kilian ^a   Timmer, Jens ^a   Sourjik, Victor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL SENSORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL SIGNALLING NETWORK; GENE REGULATION;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BIOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHESIS; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 28544450485     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04228     Document Type: Article

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