Revisiting bistability in the lysis/lysogeny circuit of bacteriophage lambda

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Bednarz, Michael ^a   Halliday, Jennifer A ^c   Herman, Christophe ^c   Golding, Ido ^a,b,c  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BISTABILITY; FLUORESCENCE; HYSTERESIS; LYSIS; LYSOGENIZATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; STEADY STATE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIOLYSIS; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; REGULATOR GENE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, SWITCH; KINETICS; LYSOGENY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 84903512155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100876     Document Type: Article

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