What makes the lac-pathway switch: Identifying the fluctuations that trigger phenotype switching in gene regulatory systems

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 11321-11328

  Bhogale, Prasanna M ^a   Sorg, Robin A ^b   Veening, Jan Willem ^b   Berg, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LAC REPRESSOR; LACI PROTEIN, E COLI; LACTOSE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; LAC OPERON; LAC REPRESSORS; LACTOSE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84922354418     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku839     Document Type: Article

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