Synchronization by irregular inactivation
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Date
2000
Authors
Closson, Taunia L. L.
Roussel, Marc R.
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Publisher
American Physical Society
Abstract
Many natural and technological systems have on/off switches. For instance, mitosis can be halted by biochemical switches which act through the phosphorylation state of a complex called mitosis promoting factor. If switching between the on and off states is periodic, chaos is observed over a substantial portion of the on/off time parameter plane. However, we have discovered that the chaotic state is fragile with respect to random fluctuations in the on time. In the presence of such fluctuations, two uncoupled copies of the system (e.g., two cells) controlled by the same switch rapidly synchronize.
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Keywords
Chaos , Chaotic state , Random fluctuations , Synchronized , Inactivation , On-off switching
Citation
Closson, T. L. L., & Roussel, M. R. (2000). Synchronization by irregular inactivation. Physical Review Letters, 85(18), 3974-3977.