Bioinformational Code in All Systems Biology

The essential communication between a living entity and its environment (s), whether the messengers are intercellular or intracellular, must involve a code. This code must involve a messenger, and a means of using that messenger to create the necessary bioinformation. Our biophysical research during 5 decades has firmly demonstrated that the messenger is sulfur, and its use as the messenger is via the -SH (thiol), its derivatives, and its redox couple, -S-S- (disulfide), in protein exchange (e. g., redox) chemistry. We have named this code the "Thiol / Disulfide Environmental Energy Exchange Code" ( i. e., tdtriplee code).

The tdtriplee code is more important than the DNA and RNA codes because the latter codes remain as just static entities until the tdtriplee code provides the messenger bioinformation which enables the transcription of the DNA or RNA into proteins which bring the forms and motions which we all recognize as "LIFE".

This Code emerged from our systems-biology research findings which we have published in pier-reviewed international scientific journals, including "Nature" and "Science", starting in the 1960's and continuing to today.