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ArticlePhysical biology2014

Impact of upstream and downstream constraints on a signaling module's ultrasensitivity.

Edgar Altszyler, Alejandra Ventura, Alejandro Colman-Lerner, Ariel Chernomoretz

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Article in Physical biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Edgar AltszylerDepartamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, IFIBA-CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón 1, Buenos Aires, Argentina. C1428EHA. Laboratorio de Fisiología y Biología Molecular, Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, IFIBYNE-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón 2, Buenos Aires, Argentina. C1428EHA.
Alejandra Ventura
Alejandro Colman-Lerner
Ariel Chernomoretz

Funding

Dynamics of gradient sensing in single cellsR01GM097479 · NIGMS · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI BRENT, ROGER · 2011 to 2014
$2.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS 1R01GM097479-01NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM097479PHS HHS 0000713502
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Much work has been done on the study of the biochemical mechanisms that result in ultrasensitive behavior of simple biochemical modules. However, in a living cell, such modules are embedded in a bigger network that constrains the range of inputs that the module will receive as well as the range of the module's outputs that network will be able to detect. Here, we studied how the effective ultrasensitivity of a modular system is affected by these restrictions. We use a simple setup to explore to what extent the dynamic range spanned by upstream and downstream components of an ultrasensitive module impact on the effective sensitivity of the system. Interestingly, we found for some ultrasensitive motifs that dynamic range limitations imposed by downstream components can produce effective sensitivities much larger than that of the original module when considered in isolation.

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Models, BiologicalSignal TransductionKinetics

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PMID25313165
PMCPMC4233326

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