Structure of silent transcription intervals and noise characteristics of mammalian genes

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Zoller, Benjamin ^a   Nicolas, Damien ^a   Molina, Nacho ^a   Naef, Felix ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

noise in mRNA counts; promoter cycle; single cell time lapse analysis; stochastic gene expression; transcriptional bursting

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; KINETIC PARAMETERS; MOUSE; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REFRACTORY PERIOD; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; TATA BOX; X CHROMOSOME; 3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; MARKOV CHAIN; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; MARKOV CHAINS; MICE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TATA BOX; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84938073950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20156257     Document Type: Article

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