Physicists Discover Quantum Law of Protein Folding* - Technology Review
[1102.3748v1] Temperature Dependence of Protein Folding Deduced from Quantum Transition
"Today, Luo and Lo say these curves can be easily explained if the process of folding is a quantum affair. By conventional thinking, a chain of amino acids can only change from one shape to another by mechanically passing though various shapes in between.
But Luo and Lo say that if this process were a quantum one, the shape could change by quantum transition, meaning that the protein could 'jump' from one shape to another without necessarily forming the shapes in between."
"Their astonishing result is that this quantum transition model fits the folding curves of 15 different proteins and even explains the difference in folding and unfolding rates of the same proteins.
That's a significant breakthrough. Luo and Lo's equations amount to the first universal laws of protein folding. That's the equivalent in biology to something like the thermodynamic laws in physics.
Impressive stuff. And don't expect it to end here."
Quantum Biology is taking off.
Het blijft tenslotte wel allemaal onderzoek natuurlijk...