Cooperativity in cellular biochemical processes: Noise-enhanced sensitivity, fluctuating enzyme, bistability with nonlinear feedback, and other mechanisms for sigmoidal responses

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 179-204

  Qian, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hysteretic enzyme; Kinetic proofreading; Nonequilibrium; Open chemical systems; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ENZYME;

CYTOCHEMISTRY; ENZYME STABILITY; KINETICS; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; BIOPHYSICS; ENZYMES; EUKARYOTA; FEEDBACK; KINETICS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84861384820     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-050511-102240     Document Type: Review

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