Protein logic gates are made from autoregulated fusion proteins comprising
an output domain and a plurality of input domains, wherein at least one
of the input domains is heterologous to the output domain, and the input
domains interact with each other to allosterically and external,
ligand-dependently regulate the output domain. The output domain may be
constitutively active, and in the absence of the ligand, the input
domains interact to inhibit the output domain. The activity of the output
domain is user discretionary, and may include activities that are
catalytic, label-generative, metabolic-regulative, apototic,
specific-binding, etc. Multiple input domains can cooperatively regulate
the fusion protein in a wide variety of functionalities, including as an
OR-gate, an AND-gate, and an AND-NOT-gate. The gates may be incorporated
into cells and therein used to modulate cell function.