Abstract
This paper develops quantitatively for the kinetics of mitochondrial oxidation the implications of the hypothesis that phosphorylation is accomplished by phonons in the mitochondrial solid. The concept is used that the phonon acts like a trapped photon to produce a reverse photocurrent, which inhibits oxidation, in the absence of phonon dissipation due to phosphorylation or uncoupling. The same concept in reverse is shown to explain qualitatively the generation of membrane potentials in nerve axon. Infrared optical phonons generated in the above processes are expected to have limited mobility, but it is shown that the structure and geometry of the lipid bilayer membrane are well adapted to the rapid and efficient dissemination of this energy throughout the mitochondrion or nerve axoni n the form of infrared electromagnetic waves by a coaxial transmission line mechanism. The mitochondrion may act like an infrared coaxial resonant cavity.
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