Spatial effects on the speed and reliability of protein-DNA search

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3570-3578

  Wunderlich, Zeba ^a   Mirny, Leonid A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 46349108554     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn173     Document Type: Article

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