Reconciling molecular regulatory mechanisms with noise patterns of bacterial metabolic promoters in induced and repressed states

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 155-160

  Ferguson, Matthew L ^a   Le Coq, Dominique Le ^b,c   Jules, Matthieu ^b   Aymerich, Stéphane ^b   Radulescu, Ovidiu ^d   Declerck, Nathalie ^a,e   Royer, Catherine A ^a  

^a CENTRE DE BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^b UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^c Centre National Pour la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^e Département de Microbiologie   (France)

Author keywords

B. subtilis; Central carbon metabolism; Gene expression control; Promoter activity; Stochastic gene expression

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MALIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CELL COUNT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POPULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84856021767     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1110541108     Document Type: Article

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