Noise in protein expression scales with natural protein abundance

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 636-643

  Bar Even, Arren ^a   Paulsson, Johan ^b,c   Maheshri, Narendra ^d   Carmi, Miri ^a   O'Shea, Erin ^d   Pilpel, Yitzhak ^a   Barkai, Naama ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEADY STATE;

FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, FUNGAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33745287724     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1807     Document Type: Article

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