Rapid and robust signaling in the CsrA cascade via RNA-protein interactions and feedback regulation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 13120-13125

  Adamson, David Nellinger ^a   Lim, Han N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene circuit; Reverse engineering; Synthetic biology; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

CSRA PROTEIN; CSRB PROTEIN; CSRD PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; STRESS;

GENE CIRCUIT; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOFILMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, LONG UNTRANSLATED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84881425806     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308476110     Document Type: Article

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