Title
Symmetry invariance for adapting biological systems
Abstract
For a general class of dynamical systems, this paper presents a necessary and sufficient characterization of invariance of transient responses to symmetries in inputs. A particular example of this property, scale-invariance or "fold-change detection" (FCD), has been shown to be exhibited in biological sensory systems ranging from bacterial chemotaxis pathways to signal transduction mechanisms in eukaryotes. The characterization is in terms of a notion of equivariance and amounts to the solvability of an associated partial differential equation. For several simple system motifs that are recurrent in biology, the solvability criterion may be checked explicitly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1137/100818078
SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
input transformations,scale-invariance,fold-detection
Journal
10
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1536-0040
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.22
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Oren Shoval1121.22
Uri Alon233336.59
Eduardo D. Sontag33134781.88