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THE problem of information storage in the phase of ‘short term memory’, has attracted considerable attention. A plausible mechanism for the process is based on an all-or-none process, assuming the existence of metastable states1,2. Such phase transitions were thought to require structural changes in macromolecular components or in the membrane permeability of the information storage unit3–5.
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NAPARSTEK, A., ROMETTE, J., KERNEVEZ, J. et al. Memory in enzyme membranes. Nature 249, 490–491 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249490a0
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