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Table 2 Design principles of bistable and tristable switches

From: A computational method for the investigation of multistable systems and its application to genetic switches

 

CS-MA

DP-MA

 

Bistable

Tristable

Bistable

Tristable

Dimerisation

High

Low

High

Low

Protein degradation

-

-

-

Low

Dimer degradation

Low

-

Low

-

  1. Differences are observed between the parameter values of the bistable and tristable CS-MA and DP-MA switches