Biology – Quantitative Biology – Subcellular Processes
Scientific paper
2011-08-20
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Subcellular Processes
Scientific paper
We study a mechanism for reliable switching in biomolecular signal-transduction cascades. Steady bistable states are created by system-size cooperative effects in populations of proteins, in spite of the fact that the phosphorylation-state transitions of any molecule, by means of which the switch is implemented, are highly stochastic. The emergence of switching is a nonequilibrium phase transition in an energetically driven, dissipative system described by a master equation. We use operator and functional integral methods from reaction-diffusion theory to solve for the phase structure, noise spectrum, and escape trajectories and first-passage times of a class of minimal models of switches, showing how all critical properties for switch behavior can be computed within a unified framework.
Fontana Walter
Krakauer David
Krishnamurthy Supriya
Smith Eric
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