@article{
author = "Raković, Dejan and Dugić, Miroljub and Jeknić-Dugić, Jasmina and Plavšić, Milenko and Jaćimovski, Stevo and Šetrajčić, Jovan P.",
year = "2014",
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).",
publisher = "Hindawi Limited",
journal = "Biomed research international",
title = "On Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena in Biomolecules and Cells: From Levinthal to Hopfield",
doi = "10.1155/2014/580491"
}
