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Biological Evolution as Defense of 'Self'
Publication date: Available online 16 October 2018Source: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular BiologyAuthor(s): William B. Miller, John S. Torday, František BaluškaAbstractAlthough the origin of self-referential consciousness is unknown, it can be argued that the instantiation of self-reference was the commencement the living state as phenomenal experientiality. As self-referential cognition is demonstrated by all living organisms, life can be equated with the sustenance of cellular homeostasis in the continuous defense of 'self'. It is proposed that the epicenter of 'self' is perpetually embodied within the basic cellu...
Source: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology - October 17, 2018 Category: Molecular Biology Source Type: research

Systems, variation, individuality and plant hormones
Publication date: Available online 9 October 2018Source: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular BiologyAuthor(s): Masaaki Watahiki, Anthony TrewavasAbstractInter-individual variation in plants and particularly in hormone content, figures strongly in evolution and behaviour. Homo sapiens and Arabidopsis exhibit similar and substantial phenotypic and molecular variation. Whereas there is a very substantial degree of hormone variation in mankind, reports of inter-individual variation in plant hormone content are virtually absent but are likely to be as large if not larger than that in mankind. Reasons for this absence are discu...
Source: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology - October 10, 2018 Category: Molecular Biology Source Type: research

Numerical analysis of steele et al. (2018): “Cause of Cambrian explosion - Terrestrial or cosmic?”
Publication date: Available online 20 September 2018Source: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular BiologyAuthor(s): Ronald G. Duggleby (Source: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology)
Source: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology - October 5, 2018 Category: Molecular Biology Source Type: research

Differential diffusivity of the Turing morphogens
Publication date: Available online 27 September 2018Source: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular BiologyAuthor(s): Yoram SchiffmannAbstractThe Turing morphogens cAMP and ATP are considered as electrolytes. Each is made of a slow anion and fast cation. The unequal diffusion of the of the cation and the anion creates an electric field which accelerates the anion and decelerates the cation. This effect is more pronounced for ATP than cAMP since ATP has higher charge and greater concentration than cAMP. (Source: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology)
Source: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology - October 5, 2018 Category: Molecular Biology Source Type: research

Coarse-grained dynamics of supramolecules: Conformational changes in outer shells of Dengue viruses
Publication date: Available online 28 September 2018Source: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular BiologyAuthor(s): Patrice Koehl, Marc DelarueAbstractWhile structural data on viruses are more and more common, information on their dynamics is much harder to obtain as those viruses form very large molecular complexes. In this paper, we propose a new method for computing the coarse-grained normal modes of such supra-molecules, NormalGo. A new formalism is developed to represent the Hessian of a quadratic potential using tensor products. This formalism is applied to the Tirion elastic potential, as well as to a Gō like potent...
Source: Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology - October 5, 2018 Category: Molecular Biology Source Type: research