Kinetic Buffering of Cross Talk between Bacterial Two-Component Sensors

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 390, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 380-393

  Groban, Eli S ^a   Clarke, Elizabeth J ^a   Salis, Howard M ^a   Miller, Susan M ^a   Voigt, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

computational biology; genetic circuits; synthetic biology; systems biology; two component systems

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN REGULATOR; PROTEIN CPXA; PROTEIN CPXR; PROTEIN ENVZ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 67449095110     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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