Stochastic gene expression out-of-steady-state in the cyanobacterial circadian clock

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7173, 2007, Pages 1249-1252

  Chabot, Jeffrey R ^a,b   Pedraza, Juan M ^a   Luitel, Prashant ^a   Van Oudenaarden, Alexander ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ABUNDANCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEIN; RNA; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS;

CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS;

EID: 37549016445     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06395     Document Type: Article

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