Formalizing spherical membrane structures and membrane proteins populations

Authors:
Daniela Besozzi;Grzegorz Rozenberg
Affiliations:
Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy;Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, Leiden, CA, The Netherlands
Venue:
WMC'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Membrane Computing
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We present a formalization of membrane structure by using a parametric 2-dimensional spherical surface, where membrane proteins reside and can move, according to prescribed operations. A more detailed formalization of membrane proteins acting as transporters is also given, thus possibly allowing a global scale analysis of ion flows across a membrane. Several other applications, both biology and computation oriented, are proposed.