Feedback loops and reciprocal regulation: Recurring motifs in the systems biology of the cell cycle

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 676-686

  Ferrell, James E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN 20; CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIN B; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; PROTEASOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WEE1 PROTEIN;

CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CENTROMERE; EMBRYO CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; G2 PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; HOMEOSTASIS; HYSTERESIS; INTERPHASE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MITOSIS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEADY STATE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA;

CELL CYCLE; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84887621295     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2013.07.007     Document Type: Review

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