Figure 4.
Illustration on a ligand-receptor cyclic interaction coordinate of the molecular mechanism of genotoxic carcinogenesis as given by the residual-alert-QSAR correlation-path hierarchy of Equations (13a)–(13c) then summarized in Equation (17). The mechanism is superimposed over an immunohistochemical analysis of paraffin-embedded sections of rat intestinal cancer using the Caspase-2 antibody [51]. In these evolving molecular graphs (the SA region is circumvented), steric movement is represented by mirroring, electronegativity docking by changing SA colors, diffusion by translation arrows; polarizability by vibration arrows, and electrophilic docking (the final stage including the maximum hardness principle) by positive charging.