Modelling the dynamics of the yeast pheromone pathway

Yeast

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 831-850

  Kofahl, Bente ^a   Klipp, Edda ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mathematical model; Pheromone; Signalling; System biology; Yeast

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE;

ALLOSTERISM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; HAPLOIDY; HORMONAL REGULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REACTION TIME; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST CELL;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 4444272353     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1122     Document Type: Article

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