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| Azi LipshtatSummaryAffiliation: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Functions of bifans in context of multiple regulatory motifs in signaling networksAzi Lipshtat
Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Biophys J 94:2566-79. 2008..These results indicate that bifan motifs in cell signaling networks can contribute to signal processing capability both intrinsically and by enabling the functions of other regulatory motifs...
Design of versatile biochemical switches that respond to amplitude, duration, and spatial cuesAzi Lipshtat
Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:1247-52. 2010..We conclude that the emergence of ultrasensitivity from coupled first-order reactions provides a versatile mechanism for the design of biochemical switches...
"All possible steps" approach to the accelerated use of Gillespie's algorithmAzi Lipshtat
Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
J Chem Phys 126:184103. 2007..Moreover, the suggested approach provides a good estimation of statistical error, which may serve as a tool for determining the number of required runs...
Signaling network triggers and membrane physical properties control the actin cytoskeleton-driven isotropic phase of cell spreadingPadmini Rangamani
Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Biophys J 100:845-57. 2011..Thus, the biophysical properties of the plasma membrane can condense varying levels of signaling network activities into a single cohesive macroscopic cellular behavior...
Topology of resultant networks shaped by evolutionary pressureAzi Lipshtat
Department of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 73:061912. 2006..This analysis provides initial insights into distribution of pathways in naturally evolving complex systems that have defined input-output relationships...
Specification of spatial relationships in directed graphs of cell signaling networksAzi Lipshtat
Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1158:44-56. 2009..We suggest that such mixed graphs will provide more accurate descriptions of functional cellular networks and their regulatory capabilities and aid in the development of large-scale predictive models of cellular behavior...
Effect of desired speed variability on highway traffic flowAzi Lipshtat
Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 79:066110. 2009..Although "mean-field" models that deal with average values only and ignore variability are simpler and easier to analyze, they can very easily turn into oversimplifications and miss relevant qualitative phenomena...
Mechanisms controlling cell size and shape during isotropic cell spreadingYuguang Xiong
Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Biophys J 98:2136-46. 2010..These mechanistic insights can provide a format for understanding how force and chemical signals together modulate cellular regulatory networks to control cell motility...
Genetic toggle switch without cooperative bindingAzi Lipshtat
Department of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Phys Rev Lett 96:188101. 2006..Here we show that, for a range of biologically relevant conditions, a suitable combination of network structure and stochastic effects gives rise to bistability even without cooperative binding...
Stochastic simulations of genetic switch systemsAdiel Loinger
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 75:021904. 2007..The average time between spontaneous transitions is evaluated as a function of the biological parameters...
Modeling of negative autoregulated genetic networks in single cellsAzi Lipshtat
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Gene 347:265-71. 2005..The analogy between regulatory gene networks and chemical reaction networks on dust grains in the interstellar medium is discussed. The analysis and simulation of complex reaction networks are also considered...
