Ferreira GR, Nakaya HI, Costa LDF. Gene regulatory and signaling networks exhibit distinct topological distributions of motifs.
Phys Rev E 2018;
97:042417. [PMID:
29758668 DOI:
10.1103/physreve.97.042417]
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Abstract
The biological processes of cellular decision making and differentiation involve a plethora of signaling pathways and gene regulatory circuits. These networks in turn exhibit a multitude of motifs playing crucial parts in regulating network activity. Here we compare the topological placement of motifs in gene regulatory and signaling networks and observe that it suggests different evolutionary strategies in motif distribution for distinct cellular subnetworks.
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