Bimodal gene expression in noncooperative regulatory systems

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

Volumn 107, Issue 51, 2010, Pages 22096-22101

  Ochab Marcinek, Anna ^a   Tabaka, Marcin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gene expression noise; Gene regulation; Noise filter induced bimodality; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; MESSENGER RNA; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 78650644119     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008965107     Document Type: Article

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