the researchers constructed a theoretical model where the transient increase in motility served as a “memory” of the enzyme’s immediate past reaction event. The enzyme used this information to leave the product molecules, thereby eliminating the probability of the reverse reaction.
So if I’m understanding correctly, just after an enzyme catalyzes a reaction it “remembers” that the products it just produced must still be nearby and knocks itself away from them?
but. the whole point is Maxwell’s demon is that it would violate thermodynamics
The point of Maxwell’s demon is that there’s an intimate connection between thermodynamic entropy and information: increasing entropy reduces information, but adding information can reduce entropy.
I think what they’re getting at here is that the enzyme’s state preserves information about its recent past which it then uses to reduce entropy the way Maxwell’s demon does.
