Phosphorelays Provide Tunable Signal Processing Capabilities for the Cell

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Kothamachu, Varun B ^a   Feliu, Elisenda ^b   Wiuf, Carsten ^b   Cardelli, Luca ^c   Soyer, Orkun S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RATE CONSTANTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CELLULAR SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CONDITION; KINETICS RATES; LOWER EUKARYOTES; PHOSPHORELAY; SIGNAL PROCESSING CAPABILITY; SIGNAL RESPONSE; SIGNALING SYSTEMS; TUNABLES;

TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84888268251     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003322     Document Type: Article

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