Information and metabolism in bacterial chemotaxis
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Information and metabolism in bacterial chemotaxis
zbMATH Open document ID: 1297.92013
author: Gennaro Auletta
published in: Entropy
publication date: 2014-09-19T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: One of the most important issues in theoretical biology is to understand how control mechanisms are deployed by organisms to maintain their homeostasis and ensure their survival. A crucial issue is how organisms deal with environmental information in a way that ensures appropriate exchanges with the environment -- even in the most basic of life forms (namely, bacteria). In this paper, I present an information theoretic formulation of how \textit{Escherichia coli} responds to environmental information during chemotaxis and, more generally, a cybernetic model of the relationship between information and biophysical (metabolic) dynamics.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92C17
zbMATH DE Number: 6346063
zbMATH Keywords: chemotaxis
zbMATH Keywords: feedback
zbMATH Keywords: information control
zbMATH Keywords: programmed goal
zbMATH Keywords: prior beliefs
zbMATH Keywords: signal
zbMATH Keywords: surprisal
Wikidata QID: Q60718203
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/e15010311
OpenAlex ID: W1994969696
cites work: Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system †
DOI: 10.3390/E15010311
DBLP publication ID: journals/entropy/Auletta13
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6346063