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ArticlePhysical biology2011

Design principles and specificity in biological networks with cross activation.

Bo Hu, Herbert Levine, Wouter-Jan Rappel

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Article in Physical biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Bo HuCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Herbert Levine
Wouter-Jan Rappel

Funding

Project 5P01GM078586 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI RAPPEL, WOUTER-JAN · 2007 to 2016
$11.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM078586
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells sense and respond to diverse environmental stimuli using a set of intracellular signaling components. Often, the signal transduction pathways contain shared components which lead to cross activation at different levels of the pathway. To discover the design principles that ensure signaling specificity is a challenging task, especially for pathways that contain numerous components. Here, we present an analysis of cross-activating pathways and show that a general inhibitory scheme, asymmetric hierarchical inhibition, is sufficient to ensure signaling specificity. Based on this inhibitory scheme, we are able to enumerate all possible network topologies containing two inhibitory links that guarantee specificity. Furthermore, we apply our methodology to the mating and filamentous growth pathways of the yeast model system Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We enumerate the possible ways to wire this model system and determine which topology is consistent with experimental data.

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Models, BiologicalReceptor Cross-TalkSignal TransductionSystems BiologyGrowthGrowth and DevelopmentReceptors, Mating FactorSaccharomyces cerevisiaeReceptors, Mating Factor

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PMID21263168
PMCPMC5943036

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