Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31604312›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2019

Stochastic antagonism between two proteins governs a bacterial cell fate switch.

Nathan D Lord, Thomas M Norman, Ruoshi Yuan, Somenath Bakshi, Richard Losick, Johan Paulsson

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 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

33 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Nathan D Lord *Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9553-2779
Thomas M Norman *Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3755-4379
Ruoshi YuanDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Somenath BakshiDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3864-2546
Richard LosickDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. johan_paulsson@hms.harvard.edu losick@mcb.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5130-6582
Johan PaulssonDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. johan_paulsson@hms.harvard.edu losick@mcb.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8671-4914

Funding

Role of RNA Polymerase in Bacterial DifferentionR01GM018568 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LOSICK, RICHARD MARC · 1985 to 2018
$11.5M
Limits and Trade-offs of Feedback ControlR01GM081563 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI Johan Paulsson · 2008 to 2026
$4.9M
Stochastic Partitioning and Degradation of MacromoleculesR01GM095784 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI PAULSSON, JOHAN · 2011 to 2014
$1.3M
ROLE OF RNA POLYMERASE IN BACTERIAL DIFFERENTIATIONR37GM018568 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LOSICK, RICHARD MARC · 1990 to 1999
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM018568NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM081563NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095784NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM018568
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell fate decision circuits must be variable enough for genetically identical cells to adopt a multitude of fates, yet ensure that these states are distinct, stably maintained, and coordinated with neighboring cells. A long-standing view is that this is achieved by regulatory networks involving self-stabilizing feedback loops that convert small differences into long-lived cell types. We combined regulatory mutants and in vivo reconstitution with theory for stochastic processes to show that the marquee features of a cell fate switch in

Indexed as

Bacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsEscherichia coliFeedback, PhysiologicalGene Expression Regulation, BacterialKineticsModels, BiologicalModels, StatisticalMovementStochastic ProcessesTransformation, BacterialBacterial ProteinsFlaD protein, BacteriaSinI protein, Bacillus subtilis

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PMID31604312
PMCPMC7526939

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