The Underlying Molecular and Network Level Mechanisms in the Evolution of Robustness in Gene Regulatory Networks

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Pujato, Mario ^a   MacCarthy, Thomas ^a,b   Fiser, Andras ^a   Bergman, Aviv ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; TRANSCRIPTION;

BINDING SPECIFICITIES; BINDING-SITES; EMERGENT PROPERTY; GENE NETWORKS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; LEVEL CHANGE; LEVEL MECHANISM; LOCAL SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR LEVELS; NETWORK LEVEL;

BINDING SITES;

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84873504350     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002865     Document Type: Article

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