Membrane fission versus cell division: When membrane proliferation is not enough

Cell division is a process that produces two or more cells from one cell by replicating the original chromosomes so that each daughter cell gets a copy of them. Membrane fission is a process by which a biological membrane is split into two new ones in suchamanner that the contents of the initial mem...

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Autores: Macías Ramos, Luis Felipe, Pérez Jiménez, Mario de Jesús, Riscos Núñez, Agustín, Valencia Cabrera, Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/85017
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/85017
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2015.06.025
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cell division
Membrane fission
Membrane Computing
Symport/antiport rules
Tractability frontier
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Sumario:Cell division is a process that produces two or more cells from one cell by replicating the original chromosomes so that each daughter cell gets a copy of them. Membrane fission is a process by which a biological membrane is split into two new ones in suchamanner that the contents of the initial membrane get distributedor separated among the new membranes. Inspired by these biological phenomena, new kinds of models we reconsidered in the discipline of Membrane Computing, in the context of P systems with active membranes, and tissue P systems that use symport/antiport rules, respectively. This paper combines the two approaches: cell-like P systems with symport/antiport rules and membrane separation are studied, from a computational complexity perspective.Specifically, the role of the environment in the context of cell-like P systems withmembrane separation is established, and additional borderlines between tractability and NP-hardness are summarized.