Space in systems biology of signaling pathways – towards intracellular molecular crowding in silico
- 12 February 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 579 (8), 1783-1788
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2005.01.072
Abstract
How cells utilize intracellular spatial features to optimize their signaling characteristics is still not clearly understood. The physical distance between the cell-surface receptor and the gene expression machinery, fast reactions, and slow protein diffusion coefficients are some of the properties that contribute to their intricacy. This article reviews computational frameworks that can help biologists to elucidate the implications of space in signaling pathways. We argue that intracellular macromolecular crowding is an important modeling issue, and describe how recent simulation methods can reproduce this phenomenon in either implicit, semi-explicit or fully explicit representation.This publication has 47 references indexed in Scilit:
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