Positive feedback in cellular control systems

BioEssays

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 542-555

  Mitrophanov, Alexander Y ^a   Groisman, Eduardo A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTOSE;

CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEM; HYSTERESIS; LACTOSE OPERON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEADY STATE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CELL CYCLE; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 45549097452     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20769     Document Type: Review

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