How does entropy determine the number of protein types in a cell?

Note: SPECIAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR, refreshments served
Speaker: Jingshan Zhang , Harvard University

When: December 3, 2009 (Thu), 03:30PM to 04:30PM (add to my calendar)
Location: PRB 595
Hosted by: Sidney Redner

This event is part of the Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Series.

Abstract: A few thousand types of proteins coexist in a single-celled organism. This number might result from a trade-off between more complex functions and less interference between functionally unrelated proteins. The need for proteins to bind to their partners constrains the number of protein types in a cell, and requires sufficient copies of each protein. This picture agrees with the experimental data of the protein types and copy numbers in a yeast cell.