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ArticleBiophysical journal2011

Trafficking motifs as the basis for two-compartment signaling systems to form multiple stable states.

Upinder Singh Bhalla

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 40% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Upinder Singh BhallaNational Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India. bhalla@ncbs.res.in
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research · IN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transport of molecules in cells is a central part of cell biology. Frequently such trafficking is not just for material transport, but also for information propagation, and serves to couple signaling circuits across cellular compartments. Here, I show that trafficking transforms simple local signaling pathways into self-organizing systems that span compartments and confer distinct states and identities to these compartments. I find that three motifs encapsulate the responses of most single-compartment signaling pathways in the context of trafficking. These motifs combine with different trafficking reactions to generate a diverse set of cellular functions. For example, trafficked bistable switches can oscillate or become quad- or tristable, depending on trafficking mechanisms and rates. Furthermore, the analysis shows how compartments participating in traffic can settle to distinct molecular compositions characteristic of distinct organelle identities. This general framework shows how the interplay between molecular movement and local reactions can generate many system functions, and give distinct identities to different parts of the cell.

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Cell CompartmentationSignal TransductionBiological TransportDiffusionModels, BiologicalMolecular Motor ProteinsNeuronal PlasticityProtein BiosynthesisSNARE ProteinsMolecular Motor ProteinsSNARE Proteins

Identifiers

PMID21723811
PMCPMC3127183
OpenAlexW2001654286

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