{"id":224954,"date":"2025-11-12T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-enzyme-network-with-competing-peptides-can-make-decisions-based-on-external-environment"},"modified":"2025-11-12T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:13:00","slug":"new-enzyme-network-with-competing-peptides-can-make-decisions-based-on-external-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-enzyme-network-with-competing-peptides-can-make-decisions-based-on-external-environment","title":{"rendered":"New enzyme network with competing peptides can make decisions based on external environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-enzyme-network-with-competing-peptides-can-make-decisions-based-on-external-environment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ability to respond to changing surroundings was once considered exclusive to complex living organisms. Then came computers, specially designed for stimulus\u2013response tasks, which can take in signals from their environment and choose what to do next based on the instructions already written into them.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long wanted to replicate this kind of behavior in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical systems<\/a>. Life and computers both need many parts working in sync to make decisions, so expecting a handful of chemicals in a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/test+tube\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">test tube<\/a> to do the same seemed quite far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p>Not anymore. A team of researchers from the Netherlands and Australia has developed a novel chemical network where different peptides compete for enzymes\u2014specifically proteases arranged in a network. This competition causes the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+mixture\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical mixture<\/a> to reorganize itself, forming an enzymatic network that adapts to the external environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to respond to changing surroundings was once considered exclusive to complex living organisms. Then came computers, specially designed for stimulus\u2013response tasks, which can take in signals from their environment and choose what to do next based on the instructions already written into them. Scientists have long wanted to replicate this kind of behavior [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}