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The cytosk
microtubles as
kelton of bio
shown in Figu
ological cells,
ure 4.
including ne
eurons of the
e brain, is m
made up of
m
Fi
igure 4. Cytosk
kelton of biologi
ical cells made
up of microtubu
ules.
Each micro
which outer cor
otuble is a ho
re diameter is
ollow cylindri
25 nm.
ical tube of tu
ublin proteins
s as shown in
n Figure 5,
w
Fi
igure 5. Hollow
w cylindrical pol
lymers of tublin
n proteins.
Microtubul
roteins contain
lectrons called
he atom that ar
ave hydropho
he
π
electrons
Each tublin
uantum superp
As the dim
isible spectrum
Bueler,1992] a
may play th
Hameroff,2004
les are compr
n hydrophobic
d
π
electrons
re not bonded
bic pockets w
s of the tubuli
n molecule can
position of bot
mensions of ce
m such that th
s shown in Fi
e role of
4].
rised of subun
c (water repel
, which mean
d to other atom
within two nan
n to become q
n function as
th conformatio
entrioles are c
hey may act a
igure 6, which
retrieval, co
nits of the pro
llent) pockets
s electrons in
ms. The tubulin
nometers of on
quantum entan
a switch betw
onal states.
lose to the wa
as phase cohe
h can be mapp
upling/entang
tein, named tu
and these poc
the reactive o
n protein subu
ne another, w
ngled.
ween two confo
ubulin [Satino
ckets contain
outer part (out
units of the m
which is close
over,2001].
atoms with
ter shell) of
icrotubules
enough for
Pr
el
th
ha
th
formations wh
ich exist in
qu
avelengths of
erent, resonan
ped onto the s
gling of spin
light in the in
t waveguides
spin of materia
n states of
nfrared and
[Albrecht-
al and they
materials
vi
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m
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