Transcriptional infidelity promotes heritable phenotypic change in a bistable gene network

PLoS Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 0364-0370

  Gordon, Alasdair J E ^a   Halliday, Jennifer A ^a   Blankschien, Matthew D ^a   Burns, Philip A ^b   Yatagai, Fumio ^c   Herman, Christophe ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CATALYSIS; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GREA GENE; GREB GENE; LACTOSE OPERON; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 61349148091     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000044     Document Type: Article

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