Computing at the Front-End by Receptor Networks

Cell Syst. 2017 Oct 25;5(4):316-318. doi: 10.1016/j.cels.2017.10.006.

Authors

Jose M G Vilar¹, Leonor Saiz²

Affiliations

¹ Biofisika Institute (CSIC, UPV/EHU) and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48080 Bilbao, Spain; IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Spain. Electronic address: j.vilar@ikerbasque.org.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Electronic address: lsaiz@ucdavis.edu.

PMID: 29073371
DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2017.10.006

Abstract

Cells use receptors at their surface not just to transduce signals but also to perform computations before relaying them downstream.

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