The effects of transcription factor competition on gene regulation

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Zabet, Nicolae Radu ^a,b   Adryan, Boris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facilitated diffusion; Molecular crowding; Noise; Roadblocks; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885406352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00197     Document Type: Article

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