Biological effects of magnetic storms and ELF magnetic fields

RM Sarimov, DA Serov, SV Gudkov - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The study of the biological effects of time-varying magnetic fields has
attracted more and more attention from researchers, and the number of publications on this …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetoreception in cryptochrome enabled by one-dimensional radical motion

JL Ramsay, DR Kattnig - AVS Quantum Science, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A popular hypothesis ascribes magnetoreception to a magnetosensitive recombination
reaction of a pair of radicals in the protein cryptochrome. Many theoretical studies of this …

Structural rearrangements of pigeon cryptochrome 4 undergoing a complete redox cycle

F Schuhmann, JL Ramsay, DR Kattnig… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cryptochrome is currently the major contender of a protein to underpin magnetoreception,
the ability to sense the Earth's magnetic field. Among various types of cryptochromes …

A structural decryption of cryptochromes

CC DeOliveira, BR Crane - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cryptochromes (CRYs), which are signaling proteins related to DNA photolyases, play
pivotal roles in sensory responses throughout biology, including growth and development …

Hypomagnetic field effects as a potential avenue for testing the radical pair mechanism in biology

H Zadeh-Haghighi, R Rishabh, C Simon - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Near-zero magnetic fields, called hypomagnetic fields, are known to impact biological
phenomena, including developmental processes, the circadian system, neuronal and brain …

[HTML][HTML] Avian cryptochrome 4 binds superoxide

J Deviers, F Cailliez, A de la Lande… - Computational and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Flavin-binding cryptochromes are blue-light sensitive photoreceptors that have been
implicated with magnetoreception in some species. The photocycle involves an intra-protein …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic nuclear magnetic resonance and intermittent hypoxia trigger time dependent on/off effects in circadian clocks and confirm a central role of …

V Thoeni, EY Dimova, T Kietzmann, RJ Usselman… - Redox Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Cellular magnetic field effects are assumed to base on coherent singlet-triplet
interconversion of radical pairs that are sensitive to applied radiofrequency (RF) and weak …

Quantum control of radical-pair dynamics beyond time-local optimization

FT Chowdhury, MCJ Denton, DC Bonser, DR Kattnig - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
We realize arbitrary-wave-form-based control of spin-selective recombination reactions of
radical pairs in the low-magnetic-field regime. To this end, we extend the gradient-ascent …

Radical pairs and superoxide amplification can explain magnetic field effects on planarian regeneration

H Zadeh-Haghighi, C Simon - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06597, 2023 - arxiv.org
Weak magnetic field exposure can affect many biological processes across a wide range of
living organisms. Recently, it has been observed that weak magnetic fields can modulate …

On the optimality of the radical-pair quantum compass

LD Smith, J Glatthard, FT Chowdhury… - Quantum Science and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum sensing enables the ultimate precision attainable in parameter estimation.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that certain organisms, most notably migratory songbirds …