ON SOME QUANTUM APPROACHES TO BIOMOLECULAR RECOGNITION

Two unresolved issues of the (semi)classically addressed problems in molecular biophysics are unreasonably long time necessary for change of biopolymer conformations and long-range directedness of selective biomolecular recognition processes – implying their essential quantum origin. In this paper, several possible quantum approaches to biomolecular recognition are considered: Theory of Non-Radiative Resonant Structural Transitions, Model of Quantum Decoherence, and Resonant Recognition Model. These approaches might be of fundamental importance in understanding underlying macroscopic quantum-holographic Hopfield-like control mechanisms of morphogenesis, and their backward influence on the expression of genes, with significant potential psychosomatic implications.