From Molecular Machines to Macroscopic Fields: an Accent to Characteristic Times

Lev V. Beloussov; Ilya V. Volodyaev

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From Molecular Machines to Macroscopic Fields: an Accent to Characteristic Times

Lev V. Beloussov, Ilya V. Volodyaev

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The aim of this essay is to review up to now scattered data related to the integration of activities of molecular machines into higher level events, providing macroscopic organization of living beings. According to the self-organization theory, one of the main instruments for such integration is enlarging of characteristic times, going as a rule, hand by hand with characteristic dimensions. We start from the “classical”, short-range mechanoelectrical protein machines emphasizing their capacity to slow down the rate of energy relaxation and to concentrate energy in a restricted number of freedom degrees. Then we pass to newly described “low entropy machines”, and briefly discuss characteristic times of morphogenetic processes. A special emphasis is made on temporal patterns of the so called biophoton emission (ultraweak photon emission from the living organisms) which have a remarkable property to be spread throughout the levels ranging from milliseconds to dozens of minutes.

Published in	European Journal of Biophysics (Volume 1, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ejb.20130101.12
Page(s)	6-15
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Molecular machines; Self-organization; Characteristic times; Ultraweak photon emission; Fourier spectra

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Lev V. Beloussov

Laboratory of Developmental Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
Ilya V. Volodyaev

Laboratory of Developmental Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

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Lev V. Beloussov, Ilya V. Volodyaev. From Molecular Machines to Macroscopic Fields: an Accent to Characteristic Times. Eur J Biophys. 2013;1(1):6-15. doi: 10.11648/j.ejb.20130101.12

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