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Title

Quantum combinatorial model of gene expression

 

Authors

Monendra Grover1, 2*, Ritu Grover3, Rakesh Singh1, Rajesh Kumar1, 4 & Sundeep Kumar1, 5

 

Affiliation

1National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India; 2Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, NOIDA, India; 3Directorate of Training and Technical Education, New Delhi, India; 4University of Missouri-Cloumbia, MO, USA; 5Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, SVPUA&T, Meerut, India.

 

Email

monendra_grover@yahoo.com; *Corresponding authors

 

Article Type

Hypothesis

 

Date

Received January 04, 2013; Accepted January 05, 2013; Published February 06, 2013

 

Abstract

We propose that the DNA within the chromatin behaves as a dynamic combinatorial library capable of forming novel structures by reversible processes. We also hypothesize that states within the library may be linked via quantum tunneling. RNA polymerase then could scan these states and the system decoheres to the “appropriate” state. Two ways of sustaining quantum coherence at relevant time scales could be possible, first, screening: the quantum system can be kept isolated from its decohering environment, second, the existence of decoherence free subspaces .We discuss the role of superconductivity in context of avoiding decoherence in context of our hypothesis.

 

Keywords

Tautomeric, Decoherence, Superconductivity.

 

Citation

Grover  et al  Bioinformation 9(3): 141-144 (2013)

 

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.