Tweaking biological switches through a better understanding of bistability behavior

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 475-481

  Chatterjee, Anushree ^a   Kaznessis, Yiannis N ^a   Hu, Wei Shou ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); OPTICAL BISTABILITY; STATE FEEDBACK; SWITCHES;

APPLICATIONS.; BI-STABILITY; BI-STABLE; BIOLOGICAL SWITCHES; CONTROL CIRCUITS; CURRENT STATE; ENGINEERED COMPONENTS; NEGATIVE FEED BACK; STIMULUS LEVELS;

FEEDBACK;

BACTERIAL CELL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE SWITCHING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; FEEDBACK; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 53049099395     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2008.08.010     Document Type: Review

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