Adenosine triphosphate ATP, a cellular key molecule, is affected by non-resonant optical frequencies

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a cellular key molecule because it provides free energy to biochemical processes by coupling endergonic and exergonic reactions. The molecule is synthesized in the mitochondria, a cellular organelle, after the complete oxidation of foodstuffs occurs. ATP is constituted by two phosphate bonds, which are the structures that store die chemical energy and are cleaved by the enzymes to release its energetic content to cellular reactions. By inducing an electric field using laser light in the visible and near-infrared optical frequencies, which are non-resonant for ATP, a charge displacement in the phosphate structure may be expected resulting in instability, and as a consequence enzymatic cleavage will be more efficient, powering the biochemical reactions in which ATP is a substrate. Since charge displacement will modify the dipole moment of ATP, the measure of the refractive index of an ATP solution before an after irradiation with non-resonant optical frequencies will be an indicator of how the molecule is altered by non-absorbed light.