Phenotypic Consequences of Promoter-Mediated Transcriptional Noise

Molecular Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 853-865

  Blake, William J ^a,b   Balázsi, Gábor ^a,b   Kohanski, Michael A ^a,b,d   Isaacs, Farren J ^e   Murphy, Kevin F ^b,c   Kuang, Yina ^f   Cantor, Charles R ^a,b   Walt, David R ^f   Collins, James J ^a,b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GAL1 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33845616177     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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