When activators repress and repressors activate: A qualitative analysis of the Shea-Ackers model

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1660-1683

  Gedeon, Tomáš ^a   Mischaikow, Konstantin ^b   Patterson, Kate ^a   Traldi, Eliane ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activator; Mass action kinetics; Prokaryotic transcription; Repressor

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION;

ALGORITHMS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 48449097541     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-008-9313-6     Document Type: Article

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