ReviewFrontiers in physiology2021
The Magnetic Compass of Birds: The Role of Cryptochrome.
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- Protein-Solvent Interface Controls Proton-Coupled Reactivity in Cryptochrome 4a.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Protein and Solvent Reorganization Drives Radical Pair Stability in Avian Cryptochrome 4a.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Birds may represent a useful animal model for studying human mental disorders.Acta neuropsychiatrica · 2025Review
- Linear free energy relationship between reduction potential and photoreduction rate: studies on Drosophila cryptochrome.The FEBS journal · 2025Article
- Full-Length Cryptochrome 1 in the Outer Segments of the Retinal Blue Cone Photoreceptors in Humans and Great Apes Suggests a Role Beyond Transcriptional Repression.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025Article
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- Magnetosensitivity of tightly bound radical pairs in cryptochrome is enabled by the quantum Zeno effect.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Melanin in the Retinal Epithelium and Magnetic Sensing: A Review of Current Studies.Biophysica · 2024Article
- Orientation of birds in radiofrequency fields in the absence of the Earth's magnetic field: a possible test for the radical pair mechanism of magnetoreception.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- 'Seeing' the electromagnetic spectrum: spotlight on the cryptochrome photocycle.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
- Migratory birds are able to choose the appropriate migratory direction under dim yellow narrowband light.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
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- A Review of the Current State of Magnetic Force Microscopy to Unravel the Magnetic Properties of Nanomaterials Applied in Biological Systems and Future Directions for Quantum Technologies.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Probing Transcriptional Crosstalk betweenInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Molecular functions of the double-sided and inverted ubiquitin-interacting motif found in Xenopus tropicalis cryptochrome 6.Development, growth & differentiation · 2023Article
- Isotope Substitution Effects on the Magnetic Compass Properties of Cryptochrome-Based Radical Pairs: A Computational Study.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2023Article
- Influence of electromagnetic fields on the circadian rhythm: Implications for human health and disease.Biomedical journal · 2023Review
- Cryptochrome and quantum biology: unraveling the mysteries of plant magnetoreception.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- A mathematical model and experimental procedure to analyze the cognitive effects of audio frequency magnetic fields.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Quantum based effects of therapeutic nuclear magnetic resonance persistently reduce glycolysis.iScience · 2022Article
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Abstract
The geomagnetic field provides directional information for birds. The avian magnetic compass is an inclination compass that uses not the polarity of the magnetic field but the axial course of the field lines and their inclination in space. It works in a flexible functional window, and it requires short-wavelength light. These characteristics result from the underlying sensory mechanism based on radical pair processes in the eyes, with cryptochrome suggested as the receptor molecule. The chromophore of cryptochrome, flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), undergoes a photocycle, where radical pairs are formed during photo-reduction as well as during re-oxidation; behavioral data indicate that the latter is crucial for detecting magnetic directions. Five types of cryptochromes are found in the retina of birds: cryptochrome 1a (Cry1a), cryptochrome 1b, cryptochrome 2, cryptochrome 4a, and cryptochrome 4b. Because of its location in the outer segments of the ultraviolet cones with their clear oil droplets, Cry1a appears to be the most likely receptor molecule for magnetic compass information.
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