The logicome of environmental bacteria: Merging catabolic and regulatory events with Boolean formalisms

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2389-2402

  Silva Rocha, Rafael ^a   Tamames, Javier ^a   dos Santos, Vitor Martins ^b   de Lorenzo, Víctor ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 XYLENE; 3-XYLENE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; XYLENE;

BIOREMEDIATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; METABOLISM; POLLUTANT; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XYLENES;

PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 80052612366     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02455.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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