A positive-feedback-based bistable 'memory module' that governs a cell fate decision

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6965, 2003, Pages 460-465

  Xiong, Wen ^a   Ferrell Jr , James E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ENZYMES; FEEDBACK;

CELL FATE DECISION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCERS;

CELLS;

ESTRADIOL; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN KINASE;

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HYSTERESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CDC2 PROTEIN KINASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTRADIOL; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; PROGESTERONE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0345359924     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02089     Document Type: Article

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