Signaling gradients in cascades of two-state reaction-diffusion systems

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

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1087-1092

  Berezhkovskii, Alexander M ^a   Coppey, Mathieu ^b   Shvartsman, Stanislav Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE;

ANIMALS; DIFFUSION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 59049099868     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811807106     Document Type: Article

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