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Published on: March 4, 2017
A kinetic thermodynamic phenomenological approach to genetic expression of heat-shock proteins
J Chela-Flores1, A M Liquori, A Florio
1International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
Abstract:
The approach of viewing complex biochemical phenomena as autocatalytic relaxation processes has been introduced previously (Liquori & Tripiciano, 1980; Liquori & Florio, 1985). In the present work this formalism is extended from its original framework regarding cell growth, to the problem of genetic expression. The case of the heat-shock response in organisms ranging from man to bacteria is discussed. Finally, we give some biochemical examples in which the new approach underlines evident temporal co-operativity.
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