An autoregulatory circuit for long-range self-organization in Dictyostelium cell populations

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7023, 2005, Pages 323-326

  Sawai, Satoshi ^a   Thomason, Peter A ^a   Cox, Edward C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CELLS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROTEINS; SIGNALING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

LIVING SYSTEMS; MULTICELLULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN KINASE A (PKA); SPIRAL WAVES;

MICROORGANISMS;

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

CHEMOTAXIS;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STIMULATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMOTAXIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DICTYOSTELIUM; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 12744280743     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03228     Document Type: Article

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