Simplified models of biological networks

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-59

  Sneppen, Kim ^a   Krishna, Sandeep ^a   Semsey, Szabolcs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bistability; Epigenetics; Feedback loops; Homeostasis; Oscillations

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL COMMUNICATION; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DNA DAMAGE; EPIGENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEAT SHOCK; HOMEOSTASIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OSCILLATION; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77952918610     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.093008.131241     Document Type: Review

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