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ArticleNature2019

A universal biomolecular integral feedback controller for robust perfect adaptation.

Stephanie K Aoki, Gabriele Lillacci, Ankit Gupta, Armin Baumschlager, David Schweingruber, Mustafa Khammash

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Article in Nature, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 139 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
139citing papers in PubMed
17.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

139 citing papers in PubMed, 394 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephanie K AokiDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland.
Gabriele LillacciDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland.
Ankit GuptaDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland.
Armin BaumschlagerDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland.
David SchweingruberDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland.
Mustafa KhammashDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland. mustafa.khammash@bsse.ethz.ch.
ETH Zurich · CH

Funding

European Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Homeostasis is a recurring theme in biology that ensures that regulated variables robustly-and in some systems, completely-adapt to environmental perturbations. This robust perfect adaptation feature is achieved in natural circuits by using integral control, a negative feedback strategy that performs mathematical integration to achieve structurally robust regulation

Indexed as

Cell EngineeringFeedback, PhysiologicalModels, BiologicalAdaptation, PhysiologicalEscherichia coliGenetic EngineeringHomeostasisUncertainty

Identifiers

PMID31217585
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