A Circadian Clock-Regulated Toggle Switch Explains AtGRP7 and AtGRP8 Oscillations in Arabidopsis thaliana

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Schmal, Christoph ^a   Reimann, Peter ^a   Staiger, Dorothee ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CLOCKS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CIRCADIAN CLOCK; CIRCADIAN CLOCK CONTROL; CROSS REGULATION; GLYCINE-RICH PROTEIN; HIGHER PLANTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; TOGGLE SWITCH; WAVEFORMS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

GLYCINE RICH PROTEIN 7; GLYCINE RICH PROTEIN 8; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84875974859     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002986     Document Type: Article

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