Positional information generated by spatially distributed signaling cascades

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Muñoz García, Javier ^a,b   Neufeld, Zoltan ^a   Kholodenko, Boris N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos de Madrid   (Spain)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SIGNALING; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ENZYMES ACTIVITY; POSITIONAL INFORMATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATIONS; ROBUST SIGNALS; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; SIGNALING CASCADES; SPATIAL ASPECT; SPATIAL SEPARATION; STATIONARY BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR;

SIGNALING;

PHOSPHATASE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; PROTEOME;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL FRACTIONATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PROTEOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 63549090526     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000330     Document Type: Article

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