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Title: Dynamic disorder and the energetic costs of information transduction

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4885725· OSTI ID:22308762
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  1. Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 (United States)

We study a model of dynamic disorder relevant for signal transduction pathways in which enzymatic reaction rates fluctuate over several orders of magnitude. For the simple networks we consider, dynamic disorder drives the system far from equilibrium and imposes an energetic burden for high fidelity signaling capability. We study how the dynamics of the underlying stochastic behavior in the reaction rate process is related to the energetic cost of transmitting information through the network.

OSTI ID:
22308762
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 141, Issue 1; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English