Effects of transcriptional pausing on gene expression dynamics

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Rajala, Tiina ^a   Häkkinen, Antti ^a   Healy, Shannon ^a   Yli Harja, Olli ^a,b   Ribeiro, Andre S ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRANSCRIPTION;

CELLULAR PROCESS; EVOLVABLE; GENE EXPRESSION DYNAMICS; GENES EXPRESSION; PHENOTYPIC DIVERSITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RESPONSE MECHANISMS; RNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT; STOCHASTICITY;

RNA;

RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PROMOTER REGION; RNA EDITING; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 77950845571     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000704     Document Type: Article

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