Intrinsic Feedbacks in MAPK Signaling Cascades Lead to Bistability and Oscillations

Previous studies have demonstrated that double phosphorylation of a protein can lead to bistability if some conditions are fulfilled. It was also shown that the signaling behavior of a covalent modification cycle can be quantitatively and, more importantly, qualitatively modified when this cycle is...

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Autores: Sepulchre, Jacques Alexandre, Ventura, Alejandra
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/20108
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/20108
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Signaling
Bistability
Oscillations
Feedbacks
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Sumario:Previous studies have demonstrated that double phosphorylation of a protein can lead to bistability if some conditions are fulfilled. It was also shown that the signaling behavior of a covalent modification cycle can be quantitatively and, more importantly, qualitatively modified when this cycle is coupled to a signaling pathway as opposed to being isolated. This property was named retroactivity. These two results are studied together in this paper showing the existence of interesting phenomena—oscillations and bistability—in signaling cascades possessing at least one stage with a double-phosphorylation cycle as in MAPK cascades.