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Secret Communication System
in the Motor

What do you think when you look at the door numbers, or
the address lines on the mail you receive? You would never
doubt that intelligent, and conscious human beings wrote these
numbers. In the same way, use of a common marking system to
specify various locations, requires consciousness. Scientists
working on V-ATPase discovered that these motors also pos-
sessed a similar addressing system. V-ATPase proton pumps
are found in various organelles and the membranes of some

cells. One of the parts constituting V-ATPase, has the address
of the destination. Thus, V-ATPase enzymes are differentiat-
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ed based on their places of duty.
One of the parts of the V-ATPase carries the address of the
destination for the motor. The way that addresses are written in
the molecular motors is a clear miracle of creation.