Bistability versus bimodal distributions in gene regulatory processes from population balance

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Shu, Che Chi ^a   Chatterjee, Anushree ^b   Dunny, Gary ^b   Hu, Wei Shou ^b   Ramkrishna, Doraiswami ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL SIGNALING; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BI-STABILITY; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; INDIVIDUAL CELLS; OFF STATE; ON STATE; POPULATION BALANCE MODELLING; PROTEIN LEVEL; REGULATORY PROCESS; SIGNALING MOLECULES; SINGLE CELLS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL POPULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS;

CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 80052319096     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002140     Document Type: Article

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