Jul
14th
Tue
14th
2009
While naked DNA has a relatively static and easy to grasp information capacity — 2 bits per nucleotide—reversible chemical modification at multiple sites in even a single protein encodes a potentially large and so far untractable amount of information.
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Unlimited multistability in multisite phosphorylation systems
Protein conformation is one of the most interesting things in the world to me. A leading theory on natural death from old age is that it’s caused by accumulated protein-folding errors.
