Computational and Genetic Reduction of a Cell Cycle to Its Simplest, Primordial Components

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Murray, Seán M ^a   Panis, Gaël ^b   Fumeaux, Coralie ^b   Viollier, Patrick H ^b   Howard, Martin ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN GCRA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE CCRM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CCRM GENE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL KINETICS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GCRA GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; METHYLATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84892700942     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001749     Document Type: Article

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