Turning Oscillations Into Opportunities: Lessons from a Bacterial Decision Gate

Sporulation vs. competence provides a prototypic example of collective cell fate determination. The decision is performed by the action of three modules: 1) A stochastic competence switch whose transition probability is regulated by population density, population stress and cell stress. 2) A sporula...

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Main Authors: Schultz, Daniel, Lu, Mingyang, Stavropoulos, Trevor, Onuchic, Jose', Ben-Jacob, Eshel
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3627974/