Stochastic branching-diffusion models for gene expression

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 9699-9704

  Cottrell, David ^a   Swain, Peter S ^b   Tupper, Paul F ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CELL SIZE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COVARIANCE; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA DEGRADATION; STEADY STATE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; YEAST;

GENE EXPRESSION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEINS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84862548947     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201103109     Document Type: Article

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