How to build a robust intracellular concentration gradient

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 311-317

  Howard, Martin ^a  

^a NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluctuations; Gradients; Intracellular; Morphogens; Precision; Robustness

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOGEN;

ACCURACY; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL CELL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL POLARITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIFFUSION; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE BINDING; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; YEAST;

ANIMALS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84861766037     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2012.03.002     Document Type: Review

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