Heritable Change Caused by Transient Transcription Errors

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Gordon, Alasdair J E ^a   Satory, Dominik ^a   Halliday, Jennifer A ^a   Herman, Christophe ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERITABILITY; LACTOSE OPERON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION ERROR;

DNA REPLICATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LAC OPERON; LAC REPRESSORS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84879628309     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003595     Document Type: Article

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