A bistable hysteretic switch in an activator-repressor regulated restriction-modification system

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6045-6057

  Williams, Kristen ^a   Savageau, Michael A ^b   Blumenthal, Robert M ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN C; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RESTRICTION MODIFICATION SYSTEM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA-CYTOSINE METHYLASES; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84879726912     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt324     Document Type: Article

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