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变构蛋白组装计算的物理限制

Physical limits on computation by assemblies of allosteric proteins

John M. Robinson

摘要:

变构蛋白质的集合体,纳米尺度的布朗计算机,是生物学中的主要信息处理装置。肌钙蛋白C-肌钙蛋白I(TnC-TnI)复合物,心脏的Ca $^{2+}$敏感调节开关,是布朗计算的范例。TnC和TnI专注于感知(读取)和报告(写入)计算任务。我们已经研究了这个复杂的使用一个新开发的变构现象学模型。最近邻有限的成员之间的相互作用,以前未被识别的地方限制系统的自由能景观的拓扑结构,并产生退化的跃迁概率。因此,信号保真度和失活动力学无法同时优化。这种权衡对耦合到单个配体化学浴的变构蛋白组装体的信息处理速率设置了上限。

英文摘要:

Assemblies of allosteric proteins, nano-scale Brownian computers, are the principle information processing devices in biology. The troponin C-troponin I (TnC-TnI) complex, the Ca$^{2+}$-sensitive regulatory switch of the heart, is a paradigm for Brownian computation. TnC and TnI specialize in sensing (reading) and reporting (writing) tasks of computation. We have examined this complex using a newly developed phenomenological model of allostery. Nearest-neighbor-limited interactions among members of the assembly place previously unrecognized constrains the topology of the system's free energy landscape and generate degenerate transition probabilities. As a result, signaling fidelity and deactivation kinetics can not be simultaneously optimized. This trade-off places an upper limit on the rate of information processing by assemblies of allosteric proteins that couple to a single ligand chemical bath.

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