NOTportteina
NOTportteina is a fictional regulatory protein used in speculative biology and science education to demonstrate how a NOT logic gate could be implemented in a cellular context. The name combines the logical negation operator NOT with portteina, a coined suffix used to designate a hypothetical protein family.
In the standard fictional model, NOTportteina is a small cytosolic protein of approximately 20 to 25 kilodaltons.
Within the imagined organism, NOTportteina participates in a simple gene circuit alongside a promoter and an
Scholarly reaction has been to treat NOTportteina as a hypothetical example, emphasizing that it belongs to