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Title: | On macroscopic quantum phenomena in biomolecules and cells: From levinthal to hopfield | Authors: | Raković D. Dugić M. Jeknić-Dugić J. Plavšić, Milica Jaćimovski S. Šetrajčić J. |
Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2014 | Journal: | BioMed Research International | Abstract: | In the context of the macroscopic quantum phenomena of the second kind, we hereby seek for a solution-in-principle of the long standing problem of the polymer folding, which was considered by Levinthal as (semi)classically intractable. To illuminate it, we applied quantum-chemical and quantum decoherence approaches to conformational transitions. Our analyses imply the existence of novel macroscopic quantum biomolecular phenomena, with biomolecular chain folding in an open environment considered as a subtle interplay between energy and conformation eigenstates of this biomolecule, governed by quantum-chemical and quantum decoherence laws. On the other hand, within an open biological cell, a system of all identical (noninteracting and dynamically noncoupled) biomolecular proteins might be considered as corresponding spatial quantum ensemble of these identical biomolecular processors, providing spatially distributed quantum solution to a single corresponding biomolecular chain folding, whose density of conformational states might be represented as Hopfield-like quantum-holographic associative neural network too (providing an equivalent global quantum-informational alternative to standard molecular-biology local biochemical approach in biomolecules and cells and higher hierarchical levels of organism, as well). © 2014 Dejan Raković et al. | URI: | https://open.uns.ac.rs/handle/123456789/7953 | ISSN: | 23146133 | DOI: | 10.1155/2014/580491 |
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