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The second messenger system as the morphogenetic field
1Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|December 29, 1989
Abstract:
For sixty years morphogenetic fields have been assumed. We suggest a realization for such a field: the second messenger (in particular cyclic AMP) and its substrate (in particular ATP) are suggested to be the activator-morphogen and inhibitor respectively. Gene transcription is derived as an hysteretic function of the second messenger (cyclic AMP).