Research Article
The Registration of a Biomaser-Like Effect in
an Enzyme System with an RTM Sensor
Yu. D. Ivanov ,
1,2
K. A. Malsagova ,
1
S. G. Vesnin,
3
V. Yu. Tatur,
4
N. D. Ivanova,
5
and V. S. Ziborov
1,2
1
Institute of Biomedical Chemistry (IBMC), Pogodinskaya Street, 10, build. 8, 119121, Moscow, Russia
2
Joint Institute for High Temperatures of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
3
RES Ltd, Moscow, Russia
4
Foundation of Perspective Technologies and Novations, Moscow, Russia
5
Skryabin Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Moscow, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed to Yu. D. Ivanov; yurii.ivanov.nata@gmail.com
Received 27 March 2019; Revised 11 June 2019; Accepted 9 July 2019; Published 21 August 2019
Academic Editor: Carlos Michel
Copyright © 2019 Yu. D. Ivanov et al. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Te concentration dependence of a microwave frequency radiation from a solution of a functioning enzyme system (ES) (with
the example of cytochrome P450 BM3 (CYP102A1) system during lauric acid (LA) hydroxylation) has been studied with a
radiothermometric sensor. Registration of the radiation from the enzyme solution has been performed in the frequency range from
3.4 to 4.2 GHz at the enzyme concentrations from 10
−10
V to 10
−6
V. It has been demonstrated that the catalysis of LA hydroxylation
in a reconstituted CYP102A1 system is accompanied by a generation of microwave radiation over the entire range of concentrations
studied. It has been found that a transition from a multipulse mode (at nanomolar enzyme concentrations from 10
−10
V to 10
−8
V) to
a single-pulse mode (at micromolar enzyme concentrations from 10
−7
V to 10
−6
V) is observed. Tis efect is discussed on the basis of
assumptions considering possible realization of biomaser-like radiation in the enzyme system. Te discovered concentration-based
efect of the transition of an unsynchronized pulsed radiation into a synchronized one in ES can further be used in the development
of novel methods of noninvasive diagnostics of diseases, in mathematical modeling of the functioning of living systems, and in the
development of next-generation quantum computers.
1. Introduction
Functioning of enzyme systems (ES) can be considered as a
cyclic transition of the system from a nonexcited state to an
excited nonequilibrium one and then back to the equilibrium.
During the process of catalysis, a visible-range radiation can
be observed for a number of enzyme systems, e.g., for the
oxidative enzymes that catalyze the reaction followed by
bioluminescence, i.e., luciferase [1]. Radiation from enzyme
systems can be observed in other spectral ranges as well. In
this way, previously it was demonstrated that the functioning
of the CYP102A1 enzyme system in a narrow concentration
range (from 10
−9
V to 10
−8
V) is accompanied by a microwave
radiation in the form of pulse trains at 3.4 to 4.2GHz
frequency [2]. In [2], a radiothermometry method was
employed. Tis method is becoming more common for
monitoring of functional state of both cellular systems and
the whole organism [3, 4]. Radiothermometer (abbreviated,
radiometer) measures the object’s brightness temperature
. Te brightness temperature (radio temperature) is the
temperature value that is numerically equal to the thermo-
dynamic temperature of an ideal black body. In the process
of catalytic reaction, a nonequilibrium state of the medium
can occur; this state is characterized by an increase in
the brightness temperature, what can be accompanied by a
radiation in a certain frequency range connected with the
increase in the brightness temperature. Tus, the use of a
radiometer operating in a microwave range allows one to
measure the kinetics of biochemical processes by monitor-
ing changes in the brightness temperature. Tis approach
is very convenient, as it is label-free, does not require
expensive equipment, and provides new information about
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Journal of Sensors
Volume 2019, Article ID 7608512, 11 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/7608512