Asymmetric stochastic switching driven by intrinsic molecular noise

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Frigola, David ^a   Casanellas, Laura ^a   Sancho, José M ^a   Ibañes, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE;

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC STOCHASTIC SWITCHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SWITCHING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR NOISE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NOISE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; YEAST; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; KINETICS; METABOLISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STATISTICS;

KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84857399077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031407     Document Type: Article

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