Slow Protein Fluctuations Explain the Emergence of Growth Phenotypes and Persistence in Clonal Bacterial Populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rocco, Andrea ^a   Kierzek, Andrzej M ^a   McFadden, Johnjoe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL DIVISION; CLONAL SPECIES; CLONAL VARIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION;

EID: 84873843076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054272     Document Type: Article

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