Attenuation of noise in ultrasensitive signaling cascades.

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Published in Biophys J on June 01, 2002

Authors

Mukund Thattai1, Alexander van Oudenaarden

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1: Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA..

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