Bray D
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK.
Nature. 1995 Jul 27;376(6538):307-12. doi: 10.1038/376307a0.
Many proteins in living cells appear to have as their primary function the transfer and processing of information, rather than the chemical transformation of metabolic intermediates or the building of cellular structures. Such proteins are functionally linked through allosteric or other mechanisms into biochemical 'circuits' that perform a variety of simple computational tasks including amplification, integration and information storage.
活细胞中的许多蛋白质，其主要功能似乎是信息的传递与处理，而非代谢中间体的化学转化或细胞结构的构建。这些蛋白质通过变构或其他机制在功能上连接成生化“回路”，执行各种简单的计算任务，包括信号放大、信号整合和信息存储。
