Interplay of Gene Expression Noise and Ultrasensitive Dynamics Affects Bacterial Operon Organization

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Ray, J Christian J ^a,b   Igoshin, Oleg A ^a,b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NOISE ABATEMENT; PROTEINS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOMES; BIOINFORMATICS ANALYSIS; COUPLING FREQUENCIES; EXPRESSION LEVELS; FUNCTIONAL CLASS; GENES EXPRESSION; LAC OPERON; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; ULTRASENSITIVE;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LAC GENE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE REDUCTION; OPERON; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84866055481     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002672     Document Type: Article

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