Importance of crowding in signaling, genetic, and metabolic networks

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 307, Issue , 2014, Pages 419-442

  Ten Wolde, Pieter Rein ^a   Mugler, Andrew ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biochemical reactions; Cellular information transmission; Crowding in cell; Gene regulation; Membrane rebinding; Protein modification

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL MEMBRANE; DIFFUSION; ENTROPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CROWDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; CELLULAR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; CROWDING IN CELL; GENE REGULATION; MEMBRANE REBINDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMANS; METABOLOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84891079120     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800046-5.00012-6     Document Type: Chapter

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