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Exploring the possibilities for radical pair effects in cryptochrome

Ilia A. Solov'yov, Danielle E. Chandler and Klaus Schulten

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The ability of some animals to sense magnetic fields has long captured the human imagination. In our recent paper, we explored how radical pair effects in the protein cryptochrome may underlie the magnetic orientation sense of migratory birds. Here we explain our model and discuss its relationship to experimental results on plant cryptochromes, as well as discuss the next steps in refining our model, and explore alternate but related possibilities for modeling and understanding cryptochrome as a magnetic sensor.

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Ilia A. Solov'yov

Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies; Johann Wolfgang Goethe University; Frankfurt, Germany

Danielle E. Chandler

Department of Physics; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Urbana, Illinois USA

Klaus Schulten

Department of Physics; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Urbana, Illinois USA

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