Intron length increases oscillatory periods of gene expression in animal cells

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 2342-2346

  Swinburne, Ian A ^a   Miguez, David G ^a   Landgraf, Dirk ^a   Silver, Pamela A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

In vivo quantitation; Intron; Negative feedback; Oscillations; Synthetic biology; Transcription elongation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRONS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PERIODICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 51149102891     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1696108     Document Type: Article

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