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Ultrasensitivity is the condition in which a gene or protein's input/output relationship is steeper than a Michaelis-Menten-shaped curve.

Known sources of ultrasensitivity are cooperative binding of an activator, competitive binding of a substrate, zero-order activation, or a stoichiometric inhibitor