Temporal competition between differentiation programs determines cell fate choice

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kuchina, Anna ^a   Espinar, Lorena ^b   Çaǧatay, Tolga ^a   Balbin, Alejandro O ^a   Zhang, Fang ^a   Alvarado, Alma ^a   Garcia Ojalvo, Jordi ^b   Süel, Gürol M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN COMGA; PROTEIN COMK; PROTEIN SPOOA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; FUNGAL RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TIME;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; MAMMALIA;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; MEIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 83455164706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2011.88     Document Type: Article

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