Title of article :
Cell motility as an entangled quantum coherence
Author/Authors :
Matsuno، Koichiro نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1999
Abstract :
Cell motility underlying muscle contraction is imputed to a macroscopic quantum mechanical coherence actualized locally in the body of a biological organism. Actin-activated myosin ATPase activity functions as a heat sink operating effectively at an extremely low temperature. Extraction of heat energy from the actin filament can help condensing the atomic degrees of freedom constituting the filament into a macroscopic quantum state carrying a nonvanishing linear momentum. Sliding movement of an actin filament on myosin molecules while hydrolyzing ATP molecules is a consequence of the quantum mechanical coherence due to an extremely slow release of energy stored in an ATP molecule.
Journal title :
BioSystems
Journal title :
BioSystems