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Genomes and Genes | Bela NovakSummaryAffiliation: University of Oxford Country: UK Publications
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Irreversible cell-cycle transitions are due to systems-level feedbackBela Novak
Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
Nat Cell Biol 9:724-8. 2007..This systems-level view of irreversibility is supported by many experimental observations...
Design principles of biochemical oscillatorsBela Novak
Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 9:981-91. 2008..Positive feedback is one mechanism to delay the negative-feedback signal. Biological oscillators can be classified according to the topology of the positive- and negative-feedback loops in the underlying regulatory mechanism...
Regulated protein kinases and phosphatases in cell cycle decisionsBela Novak
Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Curr Opin Cell Biol 22:801-8. 2010..These general principles are applied to cell cycle transitions, with special emphasis on the roles of regulated phosphatases in orchestrating progression from one phase to the next of the DNA replication-division cycle...
Systems-level feedback in cell-cycle controlBela Novak
Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
Biochem Soc Trans 38:1242-6. 2010..The checkpoint-controlled cell cycles are always driven by a negative-feedback loop amplified by double-negative feedbacks (antagonism)...
System-level feedbacks make the anaphase switch irreversibleEnuo He
Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:10016-21. 2011..These and other puzzles associated with the mitotic checkpoint are addressed by a proposed molecular mechanism, which involves two positive feedback loops that create a bistable response of the checkpoint to chromosomal tension...
Meiotic prophase requires proteolysis of M phase regulators mediated by the meiosis-specific APC/CAma1Elwy Okaz
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
Cell 151:603-18. 2012..Thus, control of prophase I by meiotic mechanisms depends on the suppression of the alternative, mitotic mechanisms by a meiosis-specific form of the APC/C...
Switches and latches: a biochemical tug-of-war between the kinases and phosphatases that control mitosisMaria Rosa Domingo-Sananes
Department of Biochemistry, Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:3584-94. 2011..The bistable character of the switch implies the existence of a CycB threshold for entry into mitosis. The end of G2 phase is determined by the point where CycB level crosses the CycB threshold for Cdk1 activation...
Computational modelling of mitotic exit in budding yeast: the role of separase and Cdc14 endocyclesP K Vinod
Department of Biochemistry, Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
J R Soc Interface 8:1128-41. 2011..The model is also used for the systematic analysis of the recently discovered Cdc14 endocycles. The significance of Cdc14 endocycles in eukaryotic cell cycle control is discussed as well...
Interplay of transcriptional and proteolytic regulation in driving robust cell cycle progressionPaula Freire
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Mol Biosyst 8:863-70. 2012..We show that both regulated transcription and degradation are part of feedback loops in the network which ensure robust function against parametric variations that can arise from the mutations and/or variations in protein levels...
Different effects of redundant feedback loops on a bistable switchMaria Rosa Domingo-Sananes
Department of Biochemistry, Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
Chaos 20:045120. 2010..We speculate that this conclusion could be general for other bistable systems with redundant feedback loops...
Bistability by multiple phosphorylation of regulatory proteinsOrsolya Kapuy
Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
Prog Biophys Mol Biol 100:47-56. 2009....
Molecular mechanisms creating bistable switches at cell cycle transitionsAnael Verdugo
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
Open Biol 3:120179. 2013..Variations of the motif might support irreversible cellular decision-making in other contexts...
System-level feedbacks control cell cycle progressionOrsolya Kapuy
Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
FEBS Lett 583:3992-8. 2009..We have also argued that bistability underlies irreversible transitions between low and high Cdk activity states and thereby ensures directionality of cell cycle progression...
Minimal Models for Cell-Cycle Control Based on Competitive Inhibition and Multisite Phosphorylations of Cdk SubstratesClaude Gérard
Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Biophys J 104:1367-79. 2013....
Hypoxia-dependent sequestration of an oxygen sensor by a widespread structural motif can shape the hypoxic response--a predictive kinetic modelBernhard Schmierer
Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology OCISB, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
BMC Syst Biol 4:139. 2010..Competition by ARD proteins for FIH is hypothesised to affect FIH activity towards HIFα; however the extent of this competition and its effect on the HIF-dependent hypoxic response are unknown...
Cell cycle commitment in budding yeast emerges from the cooperation of multiple bistable switchesTongli Zhang
Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology OCISB, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
Open Biol 1:110009. 2011....
Regulation of APC/C activity in oocytes by a Bub1-dependent spindle assembly checkpointBarry E McGuinness
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
Curr Biol 19:369-80. 2009..Experimental approaches hitherto used to inactivate the SAC in oocytes suffer from a number of drawbacks...
