Cooperative Binding of Transcription Factors Promotes Bimodal Gene Expression Response

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Gutierrez, Pablo S ^a   Monteoliva, Diana ^a   Diambra, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COOPERATIVE PROTEIN BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA TRANSLATION; STEADY STATE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALGORITHMS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUCLEOSOMES; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, MESSENGER; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

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EID: 84866327110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044812     Document Type: Article

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