Communication function of cell bioluminescence
A.V. Budagovsky1,2, O.N. Budagovskaya1,2, and I.A. Budagovsky3
1Michurinsk State Agrarian University, Michurinsk, Tambov Region, Russia
2Michurin Federal Scientific Center, Michurinsk, Tambov Region, Russia
3Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
Abstract
More than a hundred years ago, A.G. Gurvich discovered the effect of remote intercellular interaction (RII) in experiments with onion roots. Since then, numerous experiments have been conducted implementing RII using various methodologies. The effect of communication between the studied organisms was observed even when all contacts (chemical, electrical, acoustic, mechanical) were eliminated, but optical contact was maintained. Based on this, it was hypothesized that the communication channel for RII is the cells' own radiation. This hypothesis seemed unlikely, as ultra-weak luminescence (biochemical luminescence) is many orders of magnitude less intense than the natural background of optical radiation. However, in the case of high coherence of weak signals, they are distinguishable against a much stronger stochastic noise due to different types of photon statistics (Poisson or Bose-Einstein). It can be assumed that cells are capable of generating coherent photons, and their photoregulatory systems have the properties of a phase detector, i.e., they can distinguish the statistical orderliness of radiation. Both of these properties have been experimentally confirmed. The coherent component of cell radiation has been found in various organisms (Devyatkov N.D., 1991; Kuzin A.M., 1997; Popp, F.A., 1994; Shen X., 1995; Bajpai R.P., 1999). It has also been shown that the photoinduced response of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells significantly depends on the coherence of the acting radiation (Budagovsky A.V., 1995; 2005; 2016; 2021). Coherent waves, propagating in biological media, partially lose their statistical orderliness due to scattering on optical inhomogeneities, but even after passing through hundreds of cell layers, it remains sufficiently high to be recognized by a phase detector (Budagovsky A.V., 2006). Thus, living organisms have the necessary conditions for remote interaction of cells via ultra-weak radiation. This approach explains why the mitogenetic radiation discovered by A.G. Gurvich is difficult to detect with amplitude (non-phase) physical instruments but can be reliably (reproducibly) registered with biodetectors exhibiting phase correlator properties.
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A.V. Budagovsky
Michurinsk State Agrarian University
Russia
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