Pulsed feedback defers cellular differentiation

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Levine, Joe H ^a   Fontes, Michelle E ^a   Dworkin, Jonathan ^b   Elowitz, Michael B ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SPO0A PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; KINA PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS; PHOTOPROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPOROGENESIS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONOBIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

ALGORITHMS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONOBIOLOGY PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN KINASES; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84856463001     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001252     Document Type: Article

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