The Incoherent Feedforward Loop Can Provide Fold-Change Detection in Gene Regulation

Molecular Cell

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 894-899

  Goentoro, Lea ^a   Shoval, Oren ^b   Kirschner, Marc W ^a   Alon, Uri ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

SIGNALING; SYSBIO

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 71149099313     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2009.11.018     Document Type: Article

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