Mathematical model of a cell size checkpoint

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Vilela, Marco ^a   Morgan, Jeffrey J ^b   Lindahl, Paul A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; YEAST;

CELL CYCLE; CELL-SIZE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTIONS; CRITICAL SIZE; DETERMINISTICS; FISSION YEAST; LOCALISED; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; REACTION-DIFFUSION-CONVECTION; WILD TYPES;

CELLS;

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE CDR2; PROTEIN KINASE POM1; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WEE1 PROTEIN; CDR2 PROTEIN, S POMBE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; POM1 PROTEIN, S POMBE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; WEE1 PROTEIN, S POMBE;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS RATE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; WILD TYPE; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL CYCLE; CELL ENLARGEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

ALGORITHMS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL ENLARGEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

EID: 78651249953     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001036     Document Type: Article

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