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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Cellular autofluorescence is magnetic field sensitive.

Noboru Ikeya, Jonathan R Woodward

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Quantum Effects in Evolution: Terrestrial Fine-Tuning of Magnetic Parameters.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026
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  13. Mitochondria: great balls of fire.The FEBS journal · 2024
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  14. Spin chemistry in living systems.National science review · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Noboru IkeyaGraduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 153-8902, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7938-3395
Jonathan R WoodwardGraduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 153-8902, Tokyo, Japan jrwoodward@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-4395-2226

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We demonstrate, by direct, single-cell imaging kinetic measurements, that endogenous autofluorescence in HeLa cells is sensitive to the application of external magnetic fields of 25 mT and less. We provide spectroscopic and mechanistic evidence that our findings can be explained in terms of magnetic field effects on photoinduced electron transfer reactions to flavins, through the radical pair mechanism. The observed magnetic field dependence is consistent with a triplet-born radical pair and a B

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Magnetic FieldsElectronsElectron TransportFlavinsHeLa CellsHumansKineticsOptical ImagingSingle-Cell AnalysisFlavinsautofluorescenceflavinsmagnetic field effectquantum biologyradical pair mechanism

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PMID33397812
PMCPMC7826401

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