Stochastic holin expression can account for lysis time variation in the bacteriophage λ

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 11, Issue 95, 2014, Pages

  Singh, Abhyudai ^a   Dennehy, John J ^b,c  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Feed forward circuit; First passage time; Host lysis; Lambda phage; Stochastic gene expression; Stochastic promoter switching

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DIGITAL STORAGE; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; BIOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CELL-TO-CELL VARIABILITY; FEED-FORWARD; FIRST-PASSAGE; HOST LYSIS; STOCHASTIC GENE EXPRESSIONS;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

HOLIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LYSIS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSLATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TIME; WILD TYPE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84901447221     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0140     Document Type: Article

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