Quantitative and logic modelling of molecular and gene networks

N Le Novere - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Behaviours of complex biomolecular systems are often irreducible to the elementary
properties of their individual components. Explanatory and predictive mathematical models …

Enzyme catalysis to power micro/nanomachines

X Ma, AC Hortelão, T Patino, S Sanchez - ACS nano, 2016 - ACS Publications
Enzymes play a crucial role in many biological processes which require harnessing and
converting free chemical energy into kinetic forces in order to accomplish tasks. Enzymes …

Crowding effects on diffusion in solutions and cells

JA Dix, AS Verkman - Annu. Rev. Biophys., 2008 - annualreviews.org
We review the effects of molecular crowding on solute diffusion in solution and in cellular
aqueous compartments and membranes. Anomalous diffusion, in which mean squared …

Crowding and hydrodynamic interactions likely dominate in vivo macromolecular motion

T Ando, J Skolnick - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
To begin to elucidate the principles of intermolecular dynamics in the crowded environment
of cells, employing Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations, we examined possible mechanism …

Rules for modeling signal-transduction systems

WS Hlavacek, JR Faeder, ML Blinov, RG Posner… - Science's …, 2006 - science.org
Formalized rules for protein-protein interactions have recently been introduced to represent
the binding and enzymatic activities of proteins in cellular signaling. Rules encode an …

Microfluidics-based systems biology

DN Breslauer, PJ Lee, LP Lee - Molecular Biosystems, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
Systems biology seeks to develop a complete understanding of cellular mechanisms by
studying the functions of intra-and inter-cellular molecular interactions that trigger and …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling formalisms in systems biology

D Machado, RS Costa, M Rocha, EC Ferreira, B Tidor… - AMB express, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Systems Biology has taken advantage of computational tools and high-throughput
experimental data to model several biological processes. These include signaling, gene …

Modelling the molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity using systems biology approaches

JH Kotaleski, KT Blackwell - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2010 - nature.com
Synaptic plasticity is thought to underlie learning and memory, but the complexity of the
interactions between the ion channels, enzymes and genes that are involved in synaptic …

Reduced native state stability in crowded cellular environment due to protein–protein interactions

R Harada, N Tochio, T Kigawa, Y Sugita… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The effect of cellular crowding environments on protein structure and stability is a key issue
in molecular and cellular biology. The classical view of crowding emphasizes the volume …

Fast global registration of 3D sampled surfaces using a multi-z-buffer technique

R Benjemaa, F Schmitt - Image and Vision Computing, 1999 - Elsevier
We present a new method for the global registration of several overlapping three-
dimensional (3D) surfaces sampled on an object. The method is based on the ICP algorithm …