Qualitative simulation of the carbon starvation response in Escherichia coli

BioSystems

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 124-152

  Ropers, Delphine ^a   de Jong, Hidde ^a   Page, Michel ^a,b   Schneider, Dominique ^b   Geiselmann, Johannes ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon starvation; Escherichia coli; Genetic regulatory networks; Nutritional stress response; Piecewise linear differential equations; Qualitative modeling and simulation

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PHASE TRANSITION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC REGULATION; GROWTH; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; STARVATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33646377419     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2005.10.005     Document Type: Article

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