A generic mechanism for adaptive growth rate regulation.

How can a microorganism adapt to a variety of environmental conditions despite the existence of a limited number of signal transduction mechanisms? We show that for any growing cells whose gene expression fluctuate stochastically, the adaptive cellular state is inevitably selected by noise, even wit...

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Main Authors: Chikara Furusawa, Kunihiko Kaneko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18193939/?tool=EBI