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To: LLCF who wrote (11643)	12/29/2010 3:37:40 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

In this instance I have my professional experience on which to draw. Cellular metabolism follows the rules and theorems of organic chemistry, which is being worked out for small molecules. Large molecules have some fascinating traits of their own (the way they fold, for instance) but they do not operate in contradiction/violation of the rules for small molecules. Metabolism is a series of chemical reactions, almost all of it mediated by enzymes. Each enzyme has one specialist reaction that it performs. Most enzymes have a secondary ("allosteric") site that accepts a signaling molecule whose basic function is to throttle the enzyme's activity up or down. So, while the particulars of metabolism are marvelously varied, the types or classes of operation occurring in metabolism are just as marvelously few and simple. That is why I posit a "dark mousetrap" receptor/effector molecule for biophotons if their effect proves real and consequential. For biophotons to generate an effect without such receptor molecules would be enough of a divergence from the ways cells manage their chemical households that I do feel that "revolutionary" is not an exaggeration.