Monomeric bistability and the role of autoloops in gene regulation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Widder, Stefanie ^a   Macía, Javier ^a   Solé, Ricard ^a,b  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC BISTABILITY; GENETIC STABILITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; REGULATOR GENE; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 65549121563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005399     Document Type: Article

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