Combinatorial gene regulation using auto-regulation

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Hermsen, Rutger ^a   Ursem, Bas ^b   ten Wolde, Pieter Rein ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AUTOREGULATIONS; BOOLEAN LOGIC GATES; DESIGN MODELS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; GENE-REGULATION; LINEAR RESPONSE; PHYSICAL MODELLING; REGULATORY REGIONS; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATIONS;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77955501216     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000813     Document Type: Article

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