Dynamic mechanism for the transcription apparatus orchestrating reliable responses to activators

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wang, Yaolai ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84861603398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00422     Document Type: Article

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