Life's demons: Information and order in biology. What subcellular machines gather and process the information necessary to sustain life?

EMBO Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 495-499

  Binder, Philippe M ^a   Danchin, Antoine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b AMAbiotics   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CELL; CELL AGING; CODON; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MANIPULATION; ISOMERIZATION; LIFE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CELLS; HUMANS; LIFE;

EID: 79957974091     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2011.83     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Bacon F (2010) Novum Organum (reprint and translation of the 1620 latin original). charleston, SC, USa: Forgotten books
2. Barral Y (2010) Septins at the nexus. Science 329: 1289-1290
3. Caves cM (1993) information and entropy. Phys Rev E 47: 4010-4017
4. Danchin A, Fang G, Noria S (2007) the extant core bacterial proteome is an archive of the origin of life. Proteomics 7: 875-889 (Pubitemid 46506735)
5. Floridi L (2004) outline of a theory of strongly semantic information. Mind Mach 14: 197-222
6. Gell-Mann M (1994) The Quark and the Jaguar. San Francisco, CA, USa: WH Freeman
7. goudeau J, Aguilaniu H (2010) carbonylated proteins are eliminated during reproduction in C. elegans. Aging Cell 9: 991-1003
8. Gueron M (1978) Enhanced selectivity of enzymes by kinetic proofreading. Am Sci 66: 202-208 (Pubitemid 8305619)
9. Hopfield JJ (1974) Kinetic proofreading: A new mechanism for reducing errors in biosynthetic processes requiring high specificity. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 71: 4135-4139
10. Hu Q, Milenkovic L, Jin H, Scott MP, Nachury MV, Spiliotis ET, Nelson WJ (2010) A septin diffusion barrier at the base of the primary cilium maintains ciliary membrane protein distribution. Science 329: 436-439
11. Kim N, Jinks-robertson S (2009) dutp incorporation into genomic Dna is linked to transcription in yeast. Nature 459: 1150-1153
12. Kim SK et al (2010) planar cell polarity acts through septins to control collective cell movement and ciliogenesis. Science 329: 1337-1340
13. Lagesen K, Ussery DW, Wassenaar tM (2010) genome update: the 1000th genome-a cautionary tale. Microbiology 156: 603-608
14. Landauer R (1991) information is physical. Phys Today 44: 23-29
15. Leff H, Rex aF (2002) Maxwell's Demon 2. london, uK: taylor and Francis
16. Milholland RB, Gordon H (2007) A role for acetylcholine receptors in their own aggregation on muscle cells. Devel Neurobiol 67: 999-1008 (Pubitemid 47343745)
17. Nurse P (2008) life, Logic and information. Nature 454: 424-426
18. Oltvai ZN, Barabási al (2002) life's complexity pyramid. Science 298: 763-764
19. Rokney A, Shagan M, Kessel M, Smith Y, Rosenshine I, Oppenheim aB (2009) E. coli transports aggregated proteins to the poles by a specific energy-dependent process. J Mol Biol 392: 589-601
20. Schwartz SD, Schramm Vl (2009) Enzymatic catalysis and the nature of transition state barrier crossing. Nat Chem Biol 5: 551-558
21. Serreli V, Lee c-F, Kay ER, Leigh Da (2007) A molecular information ratchet. Nature 445: 523-527 (Pubitemid 46197630)
22. Tomita M et al (1999) E-cEll: Software environment for whole-cell simulation. Bioinformatics 15: 72-84 (Pubitemid 29101200)
23. Toyabe S, Sagawa T, Ueda M, Muneyuki E, Sano M (2010) Experimental demonstration of information-to-energy conversion and validation of the generalized Jarzynski equality. Nat Phys 6: 988-992
24. Zurek WH (1989) thermodynamic cost of computation, Algorithmic complexity and the information metric. Nature 341: 119-124