A comprehensive computational model of facilitated diffusion in prokaryotes

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1517-1524

  Zabet, Nicolae Radu ^a,b   Adryan, Boris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROKARYOTA;

DNA; LAC REPRESSOR;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FACILITATED DIFFUSION; LAC REPRESSORS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84861756737     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts178     Document Type: Article

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