Oscillations by minimal bacterial suicide circuits reveal hidden facets of host-circuit physiology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Marguet, Philippe ^a   Tanouchi, Yu ^b   Spitz, Eric ^b   Smith, Cameron ^b   You, Lingchong ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; QUORUM SENSING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PERIODICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, SYNTHETIC; PERIODICITY;

EID: 77955591445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011909     Document Type: Article

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