A bottom-up approach to gene regulation

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7078, 2006, Pages 856-860

  Guido, Nicholas J ^a   Wang, Xiao ^b   Adalsteinsson, David ^b   McMillen, David ^d   Hasty, Jeff ^e   Cantor, Charles R ^a   Elston, Timothy C ^c   Collins, J J ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CELLULAR REGULATORY PROCESSES; GENE NETWORKS; GENE REGULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

GENES;

GENETICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 32844455250     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04473     Document Type: Article

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