ArticleNature materials2016
A magnetic protein biocompass.
Article in Nature materials, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 133 papers.
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- Cryptochrome 4b protein is probably irrelevant for radical pair-based magnetoreception in the European robin.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
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- Low magnetic fields stimulate cardiac mitochondrial bioenergetics with a bell-shaped response: Possibly via a radical pair mechanism.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025Article
- Rotating magnetic field improved cognitive and memory impairments in a sporadic ad model of mice by regulating microglial polarization.GeroScience · 2024Article
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Abstract
The notion that animals can detect the Earth's magnetic field was once ridiculed, but is now well established. Yet the biological nature of such magnetosensing phenomenon remains unknown. Here, we report a putative magnetic receptor (Drosophila CG8198, here named MagR) and a multimeric magnetosensing rod-like protein complex, identified by theoretical postulation and genome-wide screening, and validated with cellular, biochemical, structural and biophysical methods. The magnetosensing complex consists of the identified putative magnetoreceptor and known magnetoreception-related photoreceptor cryptochromes (Cry), has the attributes of both Cry- and iron-based systems, and exhibits spontaneous alignment in magnetic fields, including that of the Earth. Such a protein complex may form the basis of magnetoreception in animals, and may lead to applications across multiple fields.
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