ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2015
Magnetic field effects as a result of the radical pair mechanism are unlikely in redox enzymes.
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- Human Responses to Magnetic and Hypomagnetic Fields: Available Evidence and Potential Risks for Deep Space Travel.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Radiofrequency Electromagnetic and Pulsed Magnetic Fields Protected the Kidney Against Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Acute Systemic Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, and Apoptosis by Regulating the IL-6/HIF1α/eNOS and Bcl2/Bax/Cas-9 Pathways.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Quantitative measurements of reactive oxygen species partitioning in electron transfer flavoenzyme magnetic field sensing.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Sensitivity of endogenous autofluorescence in HeLa cells to the application of external magnetic fields.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Spin Dynamics of Flavoproteins.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Statistical Amplification of the Effects of Weak Magnetic Fields in Cellular Translation.Cells · 2023Article
- Upper bound on the biological effects of 50/60 Hz magnetic fields mediated by radical pairs.eLife · 2019Article
- An open quantum system approach to the radical pair mechanism.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Environmental exposure to electromagnetic fields is potentially carcinogenic. The radical pair mechanism is considered the most feasible mechanism of interaction between weak magnetic fields encountered in our environment and biochemical systems. Radicals are abundant in biology, both as free radicals and reaction intermediates in enzyme mechanisms. The catalytic cycles of some flavin-dependent enzymes are either known or potentially involve radical pairs. Here, we have investigated the magnetic field sensitivity of a number of flavoenzymes with important cellular roles. We also investigated the magnetic field sensitivity of a model system involving stepwise reduction of a flavin analogue by a nicotinamide analogue-a reaction known to proceed via a radical pair. Under the experimental conditions used, magnetic field sensitivity was not observed in the reaction kinetics from stopped-flow measurements in any of the systems studied. Although widely implicated in radical pair chemistry, we conclude that thermally driven, flavoenzyme-catalysed reactions are unlikely to be influenced by exposure to external magnetic fields.
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