Winner takes all in a race for cell fate
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Winner takes all in a race for cell fate
The choice between alternative cell fates is fundamental to biology. The Gram-positive soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis can become competent for genetic transformation by external DNA or can form resistant spores. Although decades of work has elucidated much about the complex regulatory pathways that lead to these mutually exclusive fates (Dubnau and Losick, 2006), the decision mechanism that d...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Systems Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1744-4292,1744-4292
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2011.92