Cycling expression and cooperative operator interaction in the trp operon of Escherichia coli

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 263, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 340-352

  Hernández Valdez, Areli ^a   Santillán, Moisés ^b,c   Zeron, Eduardo S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Nonlinear dynamics; Stochastic simulation; Systems biology; Time delay differential equations

Indexed keywords

TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INHIBITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPERON; TRYPTOPHAN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77149169402     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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