Cellular automata in cytoskeletal lattices

Steven A. Smith; Richard C. Watt; Stuart R. Hameroff

doi:10.1016/0167-2789(84)90259-8

Cellular automata in cytoskeletal lattices

Steven A. Smith, Richard C. Watt, Stuart R. Hameroff

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Cellular automata (CA) activities could mediate biological regulation and information processing via nonlinear electrodynamic effects in cytoskeletal lattice arrays. Frohlich coherent oscillations and other nonlinear mechanisms may effect discrete 10^-10 to 10^-11 s interval events which result in dynamic patterns in biolattices such as cylindrical protein polymers: microtubules (MT). Structural geometry and electrostatic forces of MT subunit dipole oscillations suggest neighbor rules among the hexagonally packed protein subunits. Computer simulations using these suggested rules and MT structural geometry demonstrate CA activities including dynamical and stable self-organizing patterns, oscillators, and traveling "gliders". CA activities in MT and other cytoskeletal lattices may have important biological regulatory functions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	168-174
Number of pages	7
Journal	Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
Volume	10
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(84)90259-8
State	Published - Jan 1984

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