The Architecture of a Prototypical Bacterial Signaling Circuit Enables a Single Point Mutation to Confer Novel Network Properties

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Ram, Sri ^a   Goulian, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOP PROTEIN; PHOQ PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOSENSOR; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WILD TYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC FITNESS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884644680     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003706     Document Type: Article

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