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Science 27 July 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5837, pp. 463 - 464
DOI: 10.1126/science.1146747

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Jerome T. Mettetal and Alexander van Oudenaarden

The randomness of a switch between two alternative bacterial states has been traced to the variable expression of a single protein.

The authors are in the Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: avano{at}mit.edu

REPORTS Noise in Gene Expression Determines Cell Fate in Bacillus subtilis: Hédia Maamar, Arjun Raj, and David Dubnau (27 July 2007)
Science 317 (5837), 526. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1140818]
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Noise, Gene Expression, and Competence: Beverly A. Purnell (31 July 2007)
Sci. STKE 2007 (397), tw276. [DOI: 10.1126/stke.3972007tw276]
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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)

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