Browsing by Author "Tan, Cheemeng"
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Bistability, Synthetic Biology, and Antibiotic Treatment
Tan, Cheemeng (2010)Bistable switches are commonly observed in the regulation of critical processes such as cell cycles and differentiation. The switches possess two fundamental properties: memory and bimodality. Once switched ON, the switches ... -
The inoculum effect and band-pass bacterial response to periodic antibiotic treatment.
Tan, Cheemeng; Smith, Robert Phillip; Srimani, Jaydeep K; Riccione, Katherine A; Prasada, Sameer; Kuehn, Meta; You, Lingchong (Mol Syst Biol, 2012)The inoculum effect (IE) refers to the decreasing efficacy of an antibiotic with increasing bacterial density. It represents a unique strategy of antibiotic tolerance and it can complicate design of effective antibiotic ...