Speed, sensitivity, and bistability in Auto-Activating signaling circuits

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Hermsen, Rutger ^a   Erickson, David W ^a   Hwa, Terence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SIGNALING; SIGNALING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIMING CIRCUITS; TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUSES;

ANIMAL VIRUS; BI-STABILITY; COOPERATIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNALS; GENES EXPRESSION; GENETIC CIRCUITS; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL MODIFICATION; SIGNALING SYSTEMS; SPEED SENSITIVITY; TWO-COMPONENT;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VELOCITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 81355150962     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002265     Document Type: Article

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