Entropy in Cell Biology and Biophysics: From Gene Expression Regulation to Molecular Motors
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Entropy and Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2024 | Viewed by 663
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the advancements in informational thermodynamics, stochastic thermodynamics, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics have fostered a comprehensive understanding of informational entropy and thermodynamic entropy. Based on these foundations, the research areas that have been highlighted include intracellular signal transduction, the operation of molecular motors involving information conversion, and cellular movement. Cells, being non-equilibrium and open systems, capture environmental changes as information, convert this information into various forms, transmit it, and ultimately induce gene expression or cellular movement. The key players in this information transmission and conversion are proteins known as signaling molecules. Through a sequence of modification reactions, these modified proteins bind to the DNA within the cell nucleus as 'transcription factors', promoting gene expression, or convert mutual information into mechanical energy to drive molecular motors, potentially initiating cellular movement through chemical reactions. This Special Issue primarily focuses on topics related to cellular signal transmission and molecular motors in the context of information conversion.
The core aim of this Special Issue is to propose a framework that captures the unified mechanism of cellular information transmission and to explore a unified theory for biological research based on information science.
Prof. Dr. Tatsuaki Tsuruyama
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- entropy or information content
- Shannon entropy
- Hatano–Sasa entropy
- information thermodynamics
- stochastic thermodynamics
- fluctuation theorem
- mutual information and Kullback–Leibler divergence
- signal transduction
- molecular motor
- cell movement
- chemotaxis
- entropy coding
