Broadly heterogeneous activation of the master regulator for sporulation in Bacillus subtilis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 8486-8491

  Chastanet, Arnaud ^a,e   Vitkup, Dennis ^b   Yuan, Guo Cheng ^c   Norman, Thomas M ^a   Liu, Jun S ^d   Losick, Richard M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Bistable switch; Cell fate; Heterogeneity; Noise; Spo0A

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL FATE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPOROGENESIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PHOSPHATES; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 77952417100     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002499107     Document Type: Article

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