Analysis of stochastic strategies in bacterial competence: a master equation approach.

Competence is a transiently differentiated state that certain bacterial cells reach when faced with a stressful environment. Entrance into competence can be attributed to the excitability of the dynamics governing the genetic circuit that regulates this cellular behavior. Like many biological behavi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sandra H Dandach, Mustafa Khammash
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2978674?pdf=render