Reducing Intrinsic Biochemical Noise in Cells and Its Thermodynamic Limit

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 362, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 387-392

  Qian, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

kinetics; nonequilibrium steady state; phosphorylation energy hypothesis; proofreading; protein specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33748094844     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.07.068     Document Type: Article

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