Signal Transduction and Enzymatic Metabolic Reactions in Living Organisms

Protein structures are flexible and can change conformation dynamically, allowing them to perform a wide variety of functions. This allows for various phenomena at the molecular level, such as association-dissociation between subunits or allosteric effects due to small molecule binding. In addition to the diversity of protein structures and functions, many proteins form networks and perform more sophisticated functions. Here, we consider the networks of signal transduction that process biological information and the metabolic networks of enzymes.