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E. coli Anaerobic/aerobic transitions in chemostat

ABSTRACT: Gene-expression measurements were made over a 20 minute time course as steady state E. coli cells were subjected to an anaerobic to aerobic or an aerobic to anaerobic environmental change.

ORGANISM(S): Escherichia coli

SUBMITTER: Matthew Rolfe

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-996 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Systems analysis of transcription factor activities in environments with stable and dynamic oxygen concentrations.

Rolfe Matthew D MD Ocone Andrea A Stapleton Melanie R MR Hall Simon S Trotter Eleanor W EW Poole Robert K RK Sanguinetti Guido G Green Jeffrey J

Open biology 20120701 7

Understanding gene regulation requires knowledge of changes in transcription factor (TF) activities. Simultaneous direct measurement of numerous TF activities is currently impossible. Nevertheless, statistical approaches to infer TF activities have yielded non-trivial and verifiable predictions for individual TFs. Here, global statistical modelling identifies changes in TF activities from transcript profiles of Escherichia coli growing in stable (fixed oxygen availabilities) and dynamic (changin ...[more]

PMID: 22870390

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E. coli Anaerobic/aerobic transitions in chemostat

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Systems analysis of transcription factor activities in environments with stable and dynamic oxygen concentrations.

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