ReviewInnovation (Cambridge (Mass.))2022
Searching for unity in diversity of animal magnetoreception: From biology to quantum mechanics and back.
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- Magnetoreceptor Promotes Hepatocellular Carcinoma Development and Blunts Sorafenib-Induced Ferroptosis by Regulating Iron Homeostasis.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
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- Analysis of the Effect of the Magnetic Field on Water Flux Through TIP3;1 Aquaporins Using Molecular Dynamics in GROMACS.The Journal of membrane biology · 2026Article
- The Effect of High-Voltage Power Lines on Magnetic Orientation of Domestic Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 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
- Stable organic radical qubits and their applications in quantum information science.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2024Review
- Filamentous morphology engineering of bacteria by iron metabolism modulation through MagR expression.Synthetic and systems biotechnology · 2024Article
- Proteins as nanomagnets and magnetoreceptors.Zoological research · 2024Article
- On the evolutionary trail of MagRs.Zoological research · 2024Article
- Mitochondrial targeting sequence of magnetoreceptor MagR: More than just targeting.Zoological research · 2024Article
- The Constrained Disorder Principle May Account for Consciousness.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Unexpected divergence in magnetoreceptor MagR from robin and pigeon linked to two sequence variations.Zoological research · 2024Article
- Comparative transcriptomic analysis revealed important processes underlying the static magnetic field effects onFrontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- 'Seeing' the electromagnetic spectrum: spotlight on the cryptochrome photocycle.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
- Probing Transcriptional Crosstalk betweenInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- The Geomagnetic Field (GMF) Is Necessary for Black Garden Ant (International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Towards magnetism in pigeon MagR: Iron- and iron-sulfur binding work indispensably and synergistically.Zoological research · 2023Article
- Effect of static magnetic field on marine molluscFrontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
How animals sense the geomagnetic field remains a mystery today. A remarkable diversity has been revealed in animal magnetoreception and several sophisticated models have been put forward in the past few decades, but none have been commonly accepted yet. Cryptochrome (Cry) has been proposed in both the radical pair model and the MagR/Cry-based biocompass model. How exactly it participates in magnetic sensing is an ongoing discussion. Here we wish to suggest an intermolecular electron transport (ET) pathway conserved in evolution in the MagR/Cry complex, in which electrons travel stepwise along a flavin-tryptophan chain as described in the classic radical pair model, and further extends to iron-sulfur clusters in MagR via a series of stepping-stone amino acids as an ET bridge. The hypothesis we presented here may provide a solution to unite different models, and a feasible explanation for the intrinsic magnetic features of MagR, as well as a mechanism for signaling in animal magnetoreception, which are of considerable interest in both biology and physics.
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