Building a cell cycle oscillator: Hysteresis and bistability in the activation of Cdc2

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 346-351

  Pomerening, Joseph R ^a   Sontag, Eduardo D ^b   Ferrell Jr , James E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE PROMOTING COMPLEX; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CYCLIN B;

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL CYCLE PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; HYSTERESIS; INTERPHASE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CDC2-CDC28 KINASES; CELL CYCLE; CELL EXTRACTS; CYCLIN B; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 2; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FEMALE; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REACTION TIME; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0345700833     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb954     Document Type: Article

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