Convergent transcription confers a bistable switch in Enterococcus faecalis conjugation

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

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 9721-9726

  Chatterjee, Anushree ^a   Johnson, Christopher M ^b   Shu, Che Chi ^c   Kaznessis, Yiannis N ^a   Ramkrishna, Doraiswami ^c   Dunny, Gary M ^b   Hu, Wei Shou ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulatory network; Inverse expression; Overlapping DNA

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79959349542     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101569108     Document Type: Article

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