Chemical magnetoreception: Bird cryptochrome 1a is excited by blue light and forms long-lived radical-pairs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Liedvogel, Miriam ^a,b   Maeda, Kiminori ^b   Henbest, Kevin ^b   Schleicher, Erik ^c   Simon, Thomas ^d   Timmel, Christiane R ^b   Hore, P J ^b   Mouritsen, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d DIARECT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME 1; CRYPTOCHROME 1A; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; FLAVOPROTEIN; CRYPTOCHROME; FREE RADICAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; BIOPHYSICS; BIRD; BLUE LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAGNETISM; MIGRATORY GARDEN WARBLER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; INSECT; LIGHT; POPULATION MIGRATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AVES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLAVOPROTEINS; FREE RADICALS; INSECTS; LIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 42549166971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001106     Document Type: Article

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