Stimulation of Enzyme Reaction Rates by Crystalline Substrate Irradiation: Dependence on Identity of Irradiated Substance

TL;DR

This study confirms that irradiating crystalline substances like salts and diatomaceous earth can enhance enzyme reaction rates, with the effect depending on specific irradiation times and not on the chemical nature of the substrate.

Contribution

It extends previous findings by demonstrating that crystalline state alone, regardless of chemical composition, can stimulate enzyme reactions upon irradiation.

Findings

Irradiated crystalline salts and diatomaceous earth increase enzyme reaction rates.

Effective irradiation times follow a sharp oscillatory pattern.

The phenomenon is independent of the chemical identity of the crystalline substrate.

Abstract

The study reported here concerns a phenomenon, discovered and extensively investigated by Sorin Comorosan, wherein enzyme initial reaction rates are enhanced as a consequence of incorporation of solutions derived from previously irradiated crystalline material into the reaction medium. Effective irradiation times conform to a sharply oscillatory pattern. In most reports, the irradiated crystalline material has been the substrate for the enzyme reaction to be studied, but there have been exceptions. The experiments presented here serve to confirm and extend this latter aspect of the phenomenon. It is found that the initial reaction rates for the lactic acid dehydrogenase (LDH) conversion of pyruvate to lactate can be stimulated by irradiation of crystalline deposits of sodium chloride, sodium bromide, potassium chloride and diatomaceous earth. Similarly, stimulation of the LDH conversion of lactate to pyruvate is demonstrated for irradiated sodium chloride. There appears to be no required chemical feature of the irradiated material other than crystalline state.