Indirect and suboptimal control of gene expression is widespread in bacteria

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Price, Morgan N ^a   Deutschbauer, Adam M ^a   Skerker, Jeffrey M ^b,c   Wetmore, Kelly M ^a,c   Ruths, Troy ^a   Mar, Jordan S ^b,c   Kuehl, Jennifer V ^a   Shao, Wenjun ^c   Arkin, Adam P ^a,b,c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial evolution; gene regulation; optimal regulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON SOURCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIO ALASKENSIS; DNA DAMAGE; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SYNTHESIS; GROWTH CURVE; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; UPREGULATION; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS; CHROMATIN; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SHEWANELLA; ZYMOMONAS;

AROMATIC AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS MR-1;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC FITNESS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEWANELLA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZYMOMONAS;

EID: 84876566095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2013.16     Document Type: Article

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