Quantitative approaches to the study of bistability in the lac operon of Escherichia coli

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Santillán, Moisés ^a,b   Mackey, Michael C ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Gene regulatory networks; lac operon; Mathematical model; Multistability; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY;

BI STABLE; BI-STABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; MOLECULAR ORIGINS; QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES; REGULATORY MECHANISMS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

MOLECULES;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; LACTOSE PERMEASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC STABILITY; LACTOSE OPERON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 46249121558     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0086.focus     Document Type: Review

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