Transcriptional regulation by competing transcription factor modules

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1552-1560

  Hermsen, Rutger ^a   Tans, Sander ^a   Ten Wolde, Pieter Rein ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; TRANSCRIPTION;

CELLULARS; EUKARYOTICS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNALS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALS; PROKARYOTICS; REGULATORY REGIONS; SIGNAL INTEGRATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; OPERON; PROKARYOTIC CELL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33846002036     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020164     Document Type: Article

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