Mathematical modeling of the formation of apoptosome in intrinsic pathway of apoptosis

Systems and Synthetic Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 49-66

  Ryu, Seongho ^a,c   Lin, Shih Chieh ^b   Ugel, Nadia ^c   Antoniotti, Marco ^c,d   Mishra, Bud ^c,e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Apoptosome; Caspase 9 ODE model; Computational systems biology; Model checking; Model comparison and selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349251454     PISSN: 18725325     EISSN: 18725333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11693-009-9022-y     Document Type: Article

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