Agent-Based Modeling of Oxygen-Responsive Transcription Factors in Escherichia coli

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Bai, Hao ^a   Rolfe, Matthew D ^a   Jia, Wenjing ^a   Coakley, Simon ^a   Poole, Robert K ^a   Green, Jeffrey ^a   Holcombe, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CELL MEMBRANES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIMERS; OXYGEN; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AEROBIC RESPIRATION; AGENT-BASED MODEL; CONSERVE ENERGY; CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE; E. COLI; GENES ENCODING; HIGH AFFINITY; MODELING APPROACH; NUCLEOIDS; TERMINAL OXIDASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

OXYGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ARCA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FNR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL COUNT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; OPERON; OXYGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84901362496     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003595     Document Type: Article

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