A genome-wide analysis of promoter-mediated phenotypic noise in Escherichia coli

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Silander, Olin K ^a,b,c   Nikolic, Nela ^b,c   Zaslaver, Alon ^d   Bren, Anat ^e   Kikoin, Ilya ^e   Alon, Uri ^e   Ackermann, Martin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Environmental Microbiology ^*  (Switzerland)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84857480997     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002443     Document Type: Article

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