Accuracy in Biological Information Technology Involves Enzymatic Quantum Processing and Entanglement of Decohered Isomers

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关键词: genetics information theory;    biological quantum information;    quantum information measurements;    quantum evolutionary pressures;    quantum uncertainty limits;    DNA-proton-protein entanglements;    quantum biology;   

DOI  :  10.3390/info2010166

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Genetic specificity information “seen by” the transcriptase is in terms of hydrogen bonded proton states, which initially are metastable amino (−NH₂) and, consequently, are subjected to quantum uncertainty limits. This introduces a probability of arrangement, keto-amino → enol-imine, where product protons participate in coupled quantum oscillations at frequencies of ∼ 10¹³ s⁻¹ and are entangled. The enzymatic ket for the four G′-C′ coherent protons is | ψ > = α| + − + − > + β| + − − + > + γ| − + + − > + δ| − + − + >. Genetic specificities of superposition states are processed quantum mechanically, in an interval Δt ≪ 10⁻¹³ s, causing an additional entanglement between coherent protons and transcriptase units. The input qubit at G-C sites causes base substitution, whereas coherent states within A-T sites cause deletion. Initially decohered enol and imine G′ and *C isomers are “entanglement-protected” and participate in Topal-Fresco substitution-replication which, in the 2nd round of growth, reintroduces the metastable keto-amino state. Since experimental lifetimes of metastable keto-amino states at 37 °C are ≥ ∼3000 y, approximate quantum methods for small times, t < ∼100 y, yield the probability, P(t), of keto-amino → enol-imine as P_ρ(t) = ½ (γ_ρ/ħ)² t². This approximation introduces a quantum Darwinian evolution model which (a) simulates incidence of cancer data and (b) implies insight into quantum information origins for evolutionary extinction.

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