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| Hi there! A question worth thinking about: As surely all of you know the activites of many enzymes show a dependency on intracellular concentrations of ions e.g. calcium (ca2+). So, regarding the enzymatic activity, one can obtain infomation about the level of intracellular ca2+. Or from a more mechanistic point of view: with a molecule like for example calmodulin a cell may "measure" the internal ca2+. That brings me to the point i'm breeding over: The internal ca2+ naturally is not a constant quantity but fluctuates around a constant mean. Now consider the amplitude of these fluctuations as variance of the internal ca2+. And here is my question: Is there a enzyme (or more generally spoken: a biomolecule) that allows you to gain infomation, not only about the internal concentration of ca2+, but about the variance of the deviations of ca2+ from its mean. I am searching for a way how a cell might use this parameter (the ca2+-variance) for cellular biophysical computations. I'm grateful for any hint or idea. Maybe someone knows some literature about this stuff . Best regards, Thomas |
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