Robustness analysis of cellular memory in an autoactivating positive feedback system

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 3776-3782

  Cheng, Zhang ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Zhang, Xiao Peng ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Autoactivating positive feedback system; Cell size; Cellular memory; Cooperativity in binding; Interlinked feedback loop; Robustness analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; CELL SIZE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 54849407133     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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