Phenotypic Variation and Bistable Switching in Bacteria [PDF]
Microbial research generally focuses on clonal populations. However, bacterial cells with identical genotypes frequently display different phenotypes under identical conditions.
A Becskei+159 more
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Accurate prediction of gene expression by integration of DNA sequence statistics with detailed modeling of transcription regulation [PDF]
Gene regulation involves a hierarchy of events that extend from specific protein-DNA interactions to the combinatorial assembly of nucleoprotein complexes.
Alberts+31 more
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DNA looping: the consequences and its control [PDF]
The formation of DNA loops by proteins and protein complexes is ubiquitous to many fundamental cellular processes, including transcription, recombination, and replication.
Ackers+45 more
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Autoregulation of the Escherichia coli melR promoter: repression involves four molecules of MelR [PDF]
The Escherichia coli MelR protein is a transcription activator that autoregulates its own promoter by repressing transcription initiation. Optimal repression requires MelR binding to a site that overlaps the melR transcription start point and to upstream
Belyaeva+41 more
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A Stochastic Single-Molecule Event Triggers Phenotype Switching of a Bacterial Cell [PDF]
By monitoring fluorescently labeled lactose permease with single-molecule sensitivity, we investigated the molecular mechanism of how an Escherichia coli cell with the lac operon switches from one phenotype to another.
Cai, Long+3 more
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Molecular Distributions in Gene Regulatory Dynamics [PDF]
We show how one may analytically compute the stationary density of the distribution of molecular constituents in populations of cells in the presence of noise arising from either bursting transcription or translation, or noise in degradation rates ...
Acar+55 more
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Relatively slow stochastic gene-state switching in the presence of positive feedback significantly broadens the region of bimodality through stabilizing the uninduced phenotypic state. [PDF]
Within an isogenic population, even in the same extracellular environment, individual cells can exhibit various phenotypic states. The exact role of stochastic gene-state switching regulating the transition among these phenotypic states in a single cell ...
Hao Ge+3 more
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Boolean Models of Bistable Biological Systems
This paper presents an algorithm for approximating certain types of dynamical systems given by a system of ordinary delay differential equations by a Boolean network model.
A. Novick+16 more
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CadC-mediated activation of the cadBA promoter in Escherichia coli [PDF]
The transcriptional activator CadC in Escherichia coli, a member of the ToxR-like proteins, activates transcription of the cadBA operon encoding the lysine decarboxylase CadA and the lysine-cadaverine antiporter CadB. cadBA is induced under conditions of
Jung, K., Kuper, C.
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Background: Synthesis of allolactose (lac operon inducer) from lactose requires a site for clasping glucose as an acceptor on β-galactosidase. Results: The structure of the glucose site was defined, and its evolutionary conservation was determined ...
R. Wheatley+4 more
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