Modeling the regulation of the competence-evoking quorum sensing network in Streptococcus pneumoniae

BioSystems

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 211-223

  Karlsson, Diana ^a,b   Karlsson, Stefan ^a   Gustafsson, Erik ^a,b   Normark, Birgitta Henriques ^b   Nilsson, Patric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Competence; Hysteresis; Mathematical modeling; Oscillations; Quorum sensing; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIGNALING;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETENCE; DOWN REGULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OPERON; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRESSOR GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WAVEFORM;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 34447093989     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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