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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine2016

The reverse control of irreversible biological processes.

Kwang-Hyun Cho, Jae Il Joo, Dongkwan Shin, Dongsan Kim, Sang-Min Park

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Of mitogens and morphogens: modelling Sonic Hedgehog mechanisms in vertebrate development.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kwang-Hyun ChoDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
Jae Il JooDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
Dongkwan ShinDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
Dongsan KimDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
Sang-Min ParkDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most biological processes have been considered to be irreversible for a long time, but some recent studies have shown the possibility of their reversion at a cellular level. How can we then understand the reversion of such biological processes? We introduce a unified conceptual framework based on the attractor landscape, a molecular phase portrait describing the dynamics of a molecular regulatory network, and the phenotype landscape, a map of phenotypes determined by the steady states of particular output molecules in the attractor landscape. In this framework, irreversible processes involve reshaping of the phenotype landscape, and the landscape reshaping causes the irreversibility of processes. We suggest reverse control by network rewiring which changes network dynamics with constant perturbation, resulting in the restoration of the original phenotype landscape. The proposed framework provides a conceptual basis for the reverse control of irreversible biological processes through network rewiring. WIREs Syst Biol Med 2016, 8:366-377. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.1346 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website.

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Biological PhenomenaModels, BiologicalAnimalsCarcinogenesisCell DifferentiationCellular SenescenceGene Regulatory NetworksHumans

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