While cooperativity in ligand-induced receptor dimerization (e.g., EGF receptors) have been linked with receptor-receptor couplings via state-vector representations of physical observables, effects arising from higher-order oligomer  formations of unobserved receptors have received less attention. In this letter , we propose a dimerization model of ligand-induced receptors in multivalent form representing physical observables under basis vectors of various aggregated receptor-states. Our simulations of multivalent models not only reject Wofsy-Goldstein prediction for cooperativity, but show higher-order oligomer formations can shift cooperativity from positive to negative.
While cooperativity in ligand-induced receptor dimerization has been linked with receptor-receptor couplings via minimal representations of physical observables, effects arising from higher-order oligomer (e.g., trimer and tetramer) formations of unobserved receptors have received less attention. Here , we propose a dimerization model of ligand-induced receptors in multivalent form representing physical observables under basis vectors of various aggregated receptor-states. Our simulations of multivalent models not only reject Wofsy-Goldstein parameter conditions for cooperativity, but show higher-order oligomer formations can shift cooperativity from positive to negative.
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