Revealing a Two-Loop Transcriptional Feedback Mechanism in the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Hertel, Stefanie ^a   Brettschneider, Christian ^b   Axmann, Ilka M ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; CLOCKS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MAMMALS;

CIRCADIAN CLOCK; CIRCADIAN MODEL; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; GENETIC STUDIES; HEXAMERS; LOOP FEEDBACK; MODEL ORGANISMS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OVEREXPRESSIONS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KAIA; PROTEIN KAIB; PROTEIN KAIC; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; KAIA GENE; KAIB GENE; KAIC GENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84875998739     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002966     Document Type: Article

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