• Title of article

    Cell motility as an entangled quantum coherence

  • Author/Authors

    Matsuno، Koichiro نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1999
  • Pages
    -14
  • From page
    15
  • To page
    0
  • 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
  • Serial Year
    1999
  • Journal title
    BioSystems
  • Record number

    47459