It makes sense. The phosphorylation of a protein changes its shape. We can think of these different conformal shapes as different logical conditions or states.
LC On Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 7:07:49 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > In the September 25 2020 issue of the journal Science researchers report > on the invention of a sequence of switches made entirely of protein that > can perform AND OR and NOT Boolean logical operations, and thus is Turing > Complete, they call it Co-LOCKR. And they were able to put this simple > computer into a T-Cell antibody, and so they could activate the T-Cell > only when specific conditions are met. > > Designed protein logic to target cells with precise combinations of > surface antigens <https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6511/1637> > > By examining the antigens on the surface of a specific type of cancer > cell you can distinguish cancer cells from healthy normal cells, but it's > more complex than just looking for one specific antigen. However with > Co-LOCKR a T-Cell could be programmed for example, to only attack cells > that have antigens W OR X AND NOT both on their surface, AND antigen Y, > AND NOT antigen Z. That way the T cell would attack cancerous cells but > leave normal healthy cells alone. This is almost starting to sound a little > like a simplified version of one of Drexler's Nanomachines. > > John K Clark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/8b47470d-06d1-43c8-b22b-5b304dd1d717n%40googlegroups.com.
