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From autowave mechanisms of self-assembly to molecular machines

  • Proceedings of the XV All-Russian Seminar “Physics and the Application of Microwaves” (Waves 2015) Named after Prof. A.P. Sukhorukov
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The development of the Universe from its earliest beginnings is regarded as a succession of symmetry-breakings.... The phenomenon of life also fits naturally into this picture. Life too is symmetry-breaking.... Every time a symmetry is broken, new levels of diversity and creativity become possible. It may be that the nature of our universe and the nature of life are such that this process of diversification will have no end.

Freeman John Dyson, Infinite in All Directions (1988)

Abstract

A new pattern of regularity in the formation of chiral molecular biological system hierarchical structures is found. The formation of structures with alternating chirality (spiral structures) allows their stratification. Special attention is given to the emergence of chiral patterns in active media, and to the alternating chiral hierarchies in molecular machine structures (proteins and nucleic acids).

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  1. Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    V. A. Tverdislov, E. V. Malyshko & S. A. Ilchenko

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Tverdislov, E.V. Malyshko, S.A. Ilchenko, 2015, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2015, Vol. 79, No. 12, pp. 1728–1732.

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Tverdislov, V.A., Malyshko, E.V. & Ilchenko, S.A. From autowave mechanisms of self-assembly to molecular machines. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 79, 1516–1520 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873815120230

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