2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2013.02.050
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Atomic water channel controlling remarkable properties of a single brain microtubule: Correlating single protein to its supramolecular assembly

Abstract: Microtubule nanotubes are found in every living eukaryotic cells; these are formed by reversible polymerization of the tubulin protein, and their hollow fibers are filled with uniquely arranged water molecules. Here we measure single tubulin molecule and single brain-neuron extracted microtubule nanowire with and without water channel inside to unravel their unique electronic and optical properties for the first time. We demonstrate that the energy levels of a single tubulin protein and single microtubule made… Show more

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“…A possible way to describe quantum resonance is by wave interaction: there is not an irreducible randomness, and a driven set of preferred oscillators at certain frequencies plays a role to increase the degree of its coherence. Coherency of resonances has been studied, among others, for microtubules (Sahu et al, 2013 and b). A wave equation describing a Fröhlich system for cellular physiology has been proposed, which describes the coherence between individual oscillations using a number of energy quanta concentrated in one vibrational mode above the thermal equilibrium level and using an ensemble of interactions counting two or three coupled oscillators (Pokorny, 1998;Šrobár, 2012).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A possible way to describe quantum resonance is by wave interaction: there is not an irreducible randomness, and a driven set of preferred oscillators at certain frequencies plays a role to increase the degree of its coherence. Coherency of resonances has been studied, among others, for microtubules (Sahu et al, 2013 and b). A wave equation describing a Fröhlich system for cellular physiology has been proposed, which describes the coherence between individual oscillations using a number of energy quanta concentrated in one vibrational mode above the thermal equilibrium level and using an ensemble of interactions counting two or three coupled oscillators (Pokorny, 1998;Šrobár, 2012).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This atomic water channel has been shown to resonantly integrate all the microtubular proteins around it, up to the point that the microtubule irrespective of its size functions like a single tubulin molecule [14]. These data suggest that a water channel residing inside the microtubuli may act governing their tantalizing electronic properties [14]. DNA itself may be considered as an electrically charged vibrational structure.…”
Section: S2mentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Moreover, the hollow fibers of microtubuli have been shown to be filled by uniquely arranged water molecules [14][15][16][17]. This atomic water channel has been shown to resonantly integrate all the microtubular proteins around it, up to the point that the microtubule irrespective of its size functions like a single tubulin molecule [14]. These data suggest that a water channel residing inside the microtubuli may act governing their tantalizing electronic properties [14].…”
Section: S2mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…till to the 4-dimensional space-time and then unfolded. Anirban Bandyopadhyay and his colleagues from 2009, at the National Institute of Material Sciences in Tsukuba, Japan, were able to use nanotechnology to address electronic and optical properties of individual microtubules (Sahu et al, 2013a, b). The group has made a series of remarkable discoveries suggesting that quantum effects do occur in microtubules at biological temperatures.…”
Section: Difference Between Computer Robot and Human Brainmentioning
confidence: 99%