Understanding signaling dynamics through synthesis

Science Signaling

Volumn 5, Issue 220, 2012, Pages

  Slusarczyk, Adrian L ^a   Weiss, Ron ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; JAGGED1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; SYNTHETIC DNA;

CELL CONTACT; CELL FATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LENTIVIRINAE; MAMMAL CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PHENOTYPE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN;

CELL COMMUNICATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84859939386     PISSN: 19450877     EISSN: 19379145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2003092     Document Type: Review

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