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
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