The role of configuration and coupling in autoregulatory gene circuits

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 513-527

  Wu, Kang ^a   Rao, Christopher V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANTIPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMEOSTASIS; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; TETRA;

EID: 74349102897     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.07011.x     Document Type: Article

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