Understanding modularity in molecular networks requires dynamics

Science Signaling

Volumn 2, Issue 81, 2009, Pages

  Alexander, Roger P ^a   Kim, Philip M ^b,c   Emonet, Thierry ^a,d   Gerstein, Mark B ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL STRAIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN P21; RAF PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; KINETICS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PC12 CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS); RAF KINASES; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 70350452758     PISSN: 19450877     EISSN: 19379145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.281pe44     Document Type: Review

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