Plasticity of the cis-regulatory input function of a gene

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 555-561

  Mayo, Avraham E ^a,b   Setty, Yaakov ^a   Shavit, Seagull ^a   Zaslaver, Alon ^a   Alon, Uri ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33646167129     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040045     Document Type: Article

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