Stochasticity in gene expression in a cell-sized compartment

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 566-576

  Nishimura, Kazuya ^a,b   Tsuru, Saburo ^a   Suzuki, Hiroaki ^c,d   Yomo, Tetsuya ^a,d  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^c CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

artificial cell; fluctuation; gene expression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DECOMPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSLATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; MARKOV CHAIN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ARTIFICIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84929584019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb500249g     Document Type: Article

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