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ReviewEssays in biochemistry2018

Experimental and engineering approaches to intracellular communication.

John G Albeck, Michael Pargett, Alexander E Davies

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Review in Essays in biochemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

John G AlbeckDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A. jgalbeck@ucdavis.edu.
Michael PargettDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A.
Alexander E DaviesDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A.

Funding

The role of dynamics in defining the limits of normal developmental signaling.R01GM115650 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI ALBECK, JOHN G. · 2016 to 2021
$1.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM115650
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Communication between and within cells is essential for multicellular life. While intracellular signal transduction pathways are often specified in molecular terms, the information content they transmit remains poorly defined. Here, we review research efforts to merge biological experimentation with concepts of communication that emerge from the engineering disciplines of signal processing and control theory. We discuss the challenges of performing experiments that quantitate information transfer at the molecular level, and we highlight recent studies that have advanced toward a clearer definition of the information content carried by signaling molecules. Across these studies, we emphasize a theme of increasingly well-matched experimental and theoretical approaches to decode the data streams directing cellular behavior.

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Cell CommunicationSystems BiologyHumansModels, BiologicalSignal Transductionextracellular signal-regulated kinasesimaging techniquesreceptor tyrosine kinasessystems biologytranscription

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PMID30139878
PMCPMC6619420

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