Biochemical Filter with Sigmoidal Response: Increasing the Complexity of Biomolecular Logic

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel biochemical filter with sigmoidal response, enhancing the scalability and complexity of biomolecular logic systems by controlling noise and signal processing.

Contribution

It presents the first designed biochemical filter with sigmoidal response, providing a new analog element for biomolecular logic network interconnectivity.

Findings

Successfully demonstrated a biochemical filter with sigmoidal response

Developed a kinetic model to evaluate filter performance

Enhanced the potential for scalable biomolecular information processing

Abstract

The first realization of a designed, rather than natural, biochemical filter process is reported and analyzed as a promising network component for increasing the complexity of biomolecular logic systems. Key challenge in biochemical logic research has been achieving scalability for complex network designs. Various logic gates have been realized, but a "toolbox" of analog elements for interconnectivity and signal processing has remained elusive. Filters are important as network elements that allow control of noise in signal transmission and conversion. We report a versatile biochemical filtering mechanism designed to have sigmoidal response in combination with signal-conversion process. Horseradish peroxidase-catalyzed oxidation of chromogenic electron donor by hydrogen peroxide, was altered by adding ascorbate, allowing to selectively suppress the output signal, modifying the response from convex to sigmoidal. A kinetic model was developed for evaluation of the quality of filtering. The results offer improved capabilities for design of scalable biomolecular information processing systems.