The nonequilibrium mechanism for ultrasensitivity in a biological switch: Sensing by Maxwell's demons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 33, 2008, Pages 11737-11741

  Tu, Yuhai ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissipative system; Dwell time statistics; Energy consumption; Flagellar motor; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BIOLOGY; FLAGELLA; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 50149110195     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804641105     Document Type: Article

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