Garcia Menendez 2023 MitoFit
| Garcia Menendez R (2023) Update and a new statement of the electromagnetic coupling hypothesis to explain the translocation of protons in mitochondria, bacteria and chloroplasts. MitoFit Preprints 2023.8. https://doi.org/10.26124/mitofit:2023-0008 |
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Garcia Menendez Rodobaldo (2023) MitoFit Prep
Abstract: With the aim of proposing a mechanism that explains how the transport of electrons in some biological membranes is able to move ions, mainly protons, even against their concentration gradient, one of my works, entitled “An electromagnetic coupling hypothesis to explain the mechanism of proton translocation in mitochondria, bacteria, and chloroplasts,” was published more than 25 years ago in the journal Medical Hypotheses, 1996. Time has passed, and the subject continues to be very controversial, however, technological development, especially electron microscopy and nanotechnology, has made it possible to obtain new scientific evidence that not only supports this hypothesis but also enriches the original approach with a new precept: the electromagnetic fields generated by the transport of electrons in biological membranes, besides influencing the movement of ions found in the surrounding environment, are also responsible for most of ultrastructural changes observed by electron microscopy and play a very important role in the redistribution and positioning of proteins within the membranes in which processes such as cellular respiration and photosynthesis take place.
• Keywords: Mitochondria; electromagnetic fields; photosynthesis; cell respiration; ATP synthase
• Bioblast editor: Tindle-Solomon L
Labels: MiParea: Instruments;methods, mt-Structure;fission;fusion
Regulation: Ion;substrate transport
