University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 1QY, United Kingdom.
Sci Rep. 2017 Sep 18;7(1):11755. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-11333-7.
We evaluate information processing capacity of a single actin molecule by calculating distributions of logical gates implemented by the molecule via propagating patterns of excitation. We represent a filamentous actin molecule as an excitable automaton network (F-actin automaton). where every atom updates its state depending on states of atoms its connected to with chemical bonds (hard neighbours) and atoms being in physical proximity to the atom (soft neighbours). A resting atom excites if a sum of its excited hard neighbours and a weighted sum of its soft neighbours belong to some specified interval. We demonstrate that F-actin automata implement OR, AND, XOR and AND-NOT gates via interacting patterns of excitation. Gate AND is the most common gate and gate XOR is the rarest. Using the architectures of gates discovered we implement one bit half-adder and controlled-not circuits in the F-actin automata. Speed and space values of the F-actin molecular computers are discussed.
我们通过计算通过传播兴奋模式实现的逻辑门的分布来评估单个肌动蛋白分子的信息处理能力。我们将丝状肌动蛋白分子表示为可兴奋自动机网络(F-肌动蛋白自动机)。其中,每个原子根据与其化学键(硬邻居)连接的原子的状态以及与原子物理接近的原子的状态更新其状态。如果其兴奋的硬邻居的总和和其软邻居的加权总和属于某个指定的间隔,则处于静止状态的原子会兴奋。我们证明 F-肌动蛋白自动机通过兴奋模式的相互作用来实现 OR、AND、XOR 和 AND-NOT 门。门 AND 是最常见的门,门 XOR 是最罕见的门。使用发现的门的结构,我们在 F-肌动蛋白自动机中实现了一位半加法器和受控非门电路。讨论了 F-肌动蛋白分子计算机的速度和空间值。