Physical Limits on Cellular Sensing of Spatial Gradients
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Physical limits on cellular sensing of spatial gradients.
Many eukaryotic cells are able to detect chemical gradients by directly measuring spatial concentration differences. The precision of such gradient sensing is limited by fluctuations in the binding of diffusing particles to specific receptors on the cell surface. Here, we explore the physical limits of the spatial sensing mechanism by modeling the chemotactic cell as an Ising spin chain subject...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.048104