Interlinked mutual inhibitory positive feedbacks induce robust cellular memory effects

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 4899-4904

  Kim, Tae Hwan ^a   Jung, Sung Hoon ^b   Cho, Kwang Hyun ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Hansung University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cellular memory; Coupled positive feedback; Double negative feedback; Mutual inhibition; Robustness; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY DISORDER; MUTUAL INHIBITORY POSITIVE FEEDBACK; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 35148873714     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.09.020     Document Type: Article

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