Tuning genetic clocks employing DNA binding sites

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Jayanthi, Shridhar ^a,b   Del Vecchio, Domitilla ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84864462753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041019     Document Type: Article

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