Stochastic switching induced adaptation in a starved escherichia coli population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Shimizu, Yoshihiro ^a   Tsuru, Saburo ^a   Ito, Yoichiro ^a   Ying, Bei Wen ^a   Yomo, Tetsuya ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRYPTOPHAN; LACTOSE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SWITCHING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRPC GENE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; STATISTICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LACTOSE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 80052729003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023953     Document Type: Article

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