Non-transcriptional regulatory processes shape transcriptional network dynamics

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 817-828

  Ray, J Christian J ^a,b   Tabor, Jeffrey J ^a   Igoshin, Oleg A ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; SYNTHETIC DNA;

CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELLULAR STRESS SIGNAL; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SWITCHING; GROWTH RATE; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; MODULATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80054756690     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2667     Document Type: Review

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