A new mechanism of stem cell differentiation through slow binding/unbinding of regulators to genes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Feng, Haidong ^a   Wang, Jin ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84864833626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00550     Document Type: Article

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