Enzymatic Computing
Enzymatic Computing
The conformational dynamics of enzymes is a computational resource that fuses milieu signals in a nonlinear fashion. Response surface methodology can be used to elicit computational functionality from enzyme dynamics. We constructed a tabletop prototype to implement enzymatic signal processing in a device context and employed it in conjunction with malate dehydrogenase to perform the linearly inseparable exclusive-or operation. This shows that proteins can execute signal processing operations that are more complex than those performed by individual threshold elements. We view the experiments reported, though restricted to the two-variable case, as a stepping stone to computational networks that utilize the precise reproducibility of proteins, and the concomitant reproducibility of their nonlinear dynamics, to implement complex pattern transformations.
Molecular Computing, conformation-based computing, malate dehydrogenase, enzyme kinetics, nanotechnology
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Zauner, K.-P.
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Conrad, M.
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2001
Zauner, K.-P.
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Conrad, M.
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Zauner, K.-P. and Conrad, M.
(2001)
Enzymatic Computing.
Biotechnology Progress, 17 (3), .
Abstract
The conformational dynamics of enzymes is a computational resource that fuses milieu signals in a nonlinear fashion. Response surface methodology can be used to elicit computational functionality from enzyme dynamics. We constructed a tabletop prototype to implement enzymatic signal processing in a device context and employed it in conjunction with malate dehydrogenase to perform the linearly inseparable exclusive-or operation. This shows that proteins can execute signal processing operations that are more complex than those performed by individual threshold elements. We view the experiments reported, though restricted to the two-variable case, as a stepping stone to computational networks that utilize the precise reproducibility of proteins, and the concomitant reproducibility of their nonlinear dynamics, to implement complex pattern transformations.
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Published date: 2001
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Molecular Computing, conformation-based computing, malate dehydrogenase, enzyme kinetics, nanotechnology
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Agents, Interactions & Complexity
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