A simple negative interaction in the positive transcriptional feedback of a single gene is sufficient to produce reliable oscillations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Miró Bueno, Jesús M ^a   Rodríguez Patón, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPRESSOR GENE; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80755176812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027414     Document Type: Article

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