Cell Language Theory, The: Connecting Mind And Matter

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3.3.2 Conformon Production, Transfer, and

Utilization 119

3.3.3 Deconstructing the Chemiosmotic Model 122

3.3.4 A Comparison Between the Chemiosmotic

and Conformon Models of Oxidative

Phosphorylation 126

3.3.5 The Rochester–Noji–Helsinki (RoNoH)

Model of Oxidative Phosphorylation 131

3.3.6 Mitchel vs. Williams Protons 136

3.3.7 Active vs. Passive Conformational

Changes of Biopolymers 139

3.3.8 Active vs. Passive ATP Syntheses 140

3.3.9 Cytochrome c Oxidase an Electron-

Driven Proton Sink and Pump 141

3.3.10 Proton-Transfer Chains/Complexes as the

Fourth-Phase Water Structures of Ling

and Pollack 149

3.4 The Conformon 150

3.4.1 Direct Experimental Evidence for

Conformons or Conformational Waves 151

3.4.2 DNA Supercoils, the White Formula,

and Conformons 151

3.4.3 Stress-Induced Duplex Destabilizations as

Conformons 157

3.4.4 Virtual and Real Conformons:

Mechanisms of Conformon Generation

Based on the GFCP 158

3.4.5 The Quantization of Conformational

Energies of Biopolymers 159

3.4.6 The Conformon Hypothesis of Energy-

Coupled Processes in the Living Cell 160

3.4.7 The Conformon Model of Mechanical

Force Generation from Chemical

Reactions 162

3.4.8 The Conformon Model of Muscle

Contraction 164

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