title: The receptor mosaic hypothesis of the engram: possible relevance of Boolean network modeling.
abstract: In the past 15 years, several lines of evidence have shown that receptors for chemical signals can interact in domains of the plasma membrane and possibly form molecular circuits encoding logical operators. In this frame, the receptor mosaic hypothesis of the engram was advanced. According to this proposal, aggregates of different receptor species (mosaics) may form in neuronal membranes (typically synapses) and constitute a memory trace (engram) of its activity. In the present paper, we present an attempt to model the functioning of aggregates of interacting receptors in membrane domains by means of random Boolean networks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Modena, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zoli
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Guidolin
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fuxe
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Agnati
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002450:Cell Communication / Q000502:physiology; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000502:physiology; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000502:physiology*; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface