New Cell Fate Potentials and Switching Kinetics Uncovered in a Classic Bistable Genetic Switch
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Xiaona Fang , Qiong Liu, Christopher Bohrer, Zach Hensel,Wei Han, Jin 3 Wang *, Jie Xiao * 4 State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of 5 Applied Chemistry, Changchun, China. 6 Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of 7 Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 8 College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, China. 9 Department of Chemistry and Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New 10 York, USA. 11 Current address: Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, 12 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal. 13 *Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to J.W. 14 ([email protected]) and J.X. ([email protected]). 15
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