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SUBMITTER: Zwang TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5879481 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zwang Theodore J TJ Tse Edmund C M ECM Zhong Dongping D Barton Jacqueline K JK
ACS central science 20180307 3
How birds sense the variations in Earth's magnetic field for navigation is poorly understood, although cryptochromes, proteins homologous to photolyases, have been proposed to participate in this magnetic sensing. Here, in electrochemical studies with an applied magnetic field, we monitor the repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer lesions in duplex DNA by photolyase, mutants of photolyase, and a modified cryptochrome. We find that the yield of dimer repair is dependent on the strength and angle ...[more]