Question & Answer
Q&A: Cooperativity
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Correspondence: James E Ferrell james.ferrell@stanford.edu
Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5174, USA
Journal of Biology 2009, 8:53 doi:10.1186/jbiol157
Published: 16 June 2009First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Cooperativity is a type of behavior where a number of seemingly independent components of a system act collectively, in unison or near-unison. Think of a school of fish, a flock of birds, or a pack of lemmings. Cooperativity implies some sort of communication among the system's seemingly independent components.