New Proposals for the Formalization of Membrane Proteins

Abstract

This paper presents three new proposals to take advantage, in the framework of P systems, from proteins acting in bacteria. One attempt aims to focus on the transport protein that act as a logic AND gate at the cell membrane. The multiplicity of type of transporters involved in maintaining osmotic pressure within physiological values, both at short and long term level are also presented, as an example of parallelism occurring in living cell. Finally, the change of enzyme activity by reversible aggregation could be important for P systems as a new rule to follow, and process to model.