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SUBMITTER: Lee AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4006233 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Alpha A AA Lau Jason C S JC Hogben Hannah J HJ Biskup Till T Kattnig Daniel R DR Hore P J PJ
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20140326 95
There is growing evidence that the remarkable ability of animals, in particular birds, to sense the direction of the Earth's magnetic field relies on magnetically sensitive photochemical reactions of the protein cryptochrome. It is generally assumed that the magnetic field acts on the radical pair [FAD•- TrpH•+] formed by the transfer of an electron from a group of three tryptophan residues to the photo-excited flavin adenine dinucleotide cofactor within the protein. Here, we examine the suitabi ...[more]