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S. J. Kleene, A. C. Hobson and J. Adler, “Attractants and Repellents Influence Methylation and Demethylation of Methyl-Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins in an Extract of Escherichia Coli,” PNAS, Vol. 76, 1979, pp. 6309-6313.

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• TITLE: Teleonomy: The Feedback Circuit Involving Information and Thermodynamic Processes

  AUTHORS: Gennaro Auletta

  KEYWORDS: Chemotaxis, Escherichia Coli, Methylation, Feedback, Surprisal, Kullback - Leibler Divergence, Bayesian Probability, Anti-Feedback, Teleonomy

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.2 No.3, March 31, 2011

  ABSTRACT: Informational and entropic - metabolic aspects are strictly intertwined in organisms. An overview of bacterial chemotaxis is presented as a good and simple model to study these issues. In particular, the paper shall focus on the ability of the organism to restore its homeostasis not only from a metabolic point of view but also from an informational point of view. The organism cannot accomplish this task without a good “model” of the environment and without undertaking appropriate actions that will somehow modify it or at least the relation “organism - environment”. Subsequently, the concept of teleonomy is developed as a dynamical trade - off between segregation and openness of the organism both from a thermodynamic and informational point of view.