Bimodal and hysteretic expression in mamalian cells from a synthetic gene circuit

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  May, Tobias ^a   Eccleston, Lee ^b   Herrmann, Sabrina ^a   Hauser, Hansjörg ^a   Goncalves, Jorge ^b   Wirth, Dagmar ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CELL STRAIN 3T3; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HYSTERESIS; MATHEMATICAL GENETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; LENTIVIRINAE;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; GENES, SYNTHETIC; HUMANS; LENTIVIRUS; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 48649104164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002372     Document Type: Article

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