Role of intracellular stochasticity in biofilm growth. insights from population balance modeling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Shu, Che Chi ^a   Chatterjee, Anushree ^b   Hu, Wei Shou ^b   Ramkrishna, Doraiswami ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CELL POPULATION; CHEMICAL MASTER EQUATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE TRANSFER; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; INTRACELLULAR STOCHASTICITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRGB GENE; PRGQ GENE; PRGX GENE; REACTION DIFFUSION MASTER EQUATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOFILMS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANKTON;

EID: 84893372431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079196     Document Type: Article

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