title: Connection between noise-induced symmetry breaking and an information-decoding function for intracellular networks.
abstract: The biological function of noise-induced symmetry breaking (NISB) is still unclear even though it may potentially occur in noisy intracellular systems. In this work, I demonstrate that information decoding from a noisy signal is a potential biological function of NISB by revealing that NISB naturally emerges from an optimal information-decoding dynamics and that several intracellular networks can be identified with the information-decoding dynamics. I also propose a mean first passage time profile as a way to experimentally identify NISB.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. tetsuya@mail.crmind.net
authors.forename: Tetsuya J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
mesh_terms: D042541:Intracellular Space / Q000378:metabolism*; D008954:Models, Biological; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism