Could the metabolism of cilia and flagella rely on gravitationally dark electrons?

The metabolism of cilia and flagella (see this) is poorly understood. According to the recent measurements (see this) in sea urchin sperm (length ≈ 50 μm , 0.2 μm diameter) show that the energy consumed per flagellar beat corresponds to ≈ 2 × 10⁵ ATP molecules. There is no GTP inside cilium as in the case of axonal MTs (see this). It is difficult to understand how ATP machinery could provide the metabolic energy feed.

This motivates the question about whether local ciliary metabolism could rely on the transformation of valence electrons of some biologically important ions to dark electrons at the gravitational MB and vice versa? The reduction of h_gr for electrons would provide the metabolic energy related by a factor m_e/m_p ≈ 2^{-11 to the ordinary. About 4× 108} gravitationally dark electrons would transform to ordinary ones in a single stroke of cilium.

Electronic metabolic energy quantum would relate like cent to dollar and make possible a more refined metabolism with fine tuning. Electronic metabolism could also be an essential part of ordinary metabolism.

Consider now the idea more quantitatively.

1. What could be the electronic analog of ATP machinery. All biologically important ions can be considered as effective ions with some valence electrons at gravitational MB. In particular, the bosonic ions Ca⁺⁺, Mg⁺⁺ and Fe⁺⁺ could have Bose-Einstein condensates of gravitationally dark Cooper pairs at the gravitational MB.

Ca⁺⁺ waves play a key role in cellular biology, Fe⁺⁺ is essential for oxygen based metabolism, and Mg⁺⁺ is important in bio-catalysis: for instance, ATP must bind to Mg ions in order to become active.

The gravitational interaction would dominate and cannot be neglected. The Schrödinger equation would reduce in an excellent approximation to that for the gravitational potential. Note however that the description of dark gravitational particles in terms of wave functions concentrated at flux tubes is the more realistic option than ordinary Schrödinger equation assuming total delocalization.

By darkness, the dissipation rate is low. Could the acceleration along flux tubes, in particular MT flux tubes, lead to the ionization? Could the electret property of linear biomolecules quite generally serve for the purpose of generating electronic metabolic energy storages in this manner?

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