Diffusion of transcription factors can drastically enhance the noise in gene expression

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4350-4367

  Van Zon, Jeroen S ^a   Morelli, Marco J ^b   Tǎnase Nicola, Sorin ^b   Ten Wolde, Pieter Rein ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DISSOCIATION; DNA BINDING; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NOISE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 33845442827     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.086157     Document Type: Article

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