An experimentally supported model of the Bacillus subtilis global transcriptional regulatory network

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Arrieta Ortiz, Mario L ^a   Hafemeister, Christoph ^a   Bate, Ashley Rose ^a   Chu, Timothy ^a   Greenfield, Alex ^a   Shuster, Bentley ^a   Barry, Samantha N ^a   Gallitto, Matthew ^a   Liu, Brian ^a   Kacmarczyk, Thadeous ^a   Santoriello, Francis ^a   Chen, Jie ^a   Rodrigues, Christopher Da ^b   Sato, Tsutomu ^c   Rudner, David Z ^b   Driks, Adam ^d   Bonneau, Richard ^a,e,f   Eichenberger, Patrick ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Simons Center for Data Analysis   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; network inference; sporulation; transcriptional networks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYSACCHARIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; R FACTOR; RNA ISOLATION; SPOROGENESIS; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84948677756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20156236     Document Type: Article

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