Self-perpetuating states in signal transduction: Positive feedback, double-negative feedback and bistability

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 140-148

  Ferrell Jr, James E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN A; CYCLIN B; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN KINASE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

CELL LINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FROG; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS; YEAST;

ANURA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036532226     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(02)00314-9     Document Type: Review

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