Light-activated Cryptochrome Reacts with Molecular Oxygen to Form a Flavin–Superoxide Radical Pair Consistent with Magnetoreception

Searching for a photocycle of the cryptochrome photoreceptors

(2010) Bin Liu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Reaction mechanisms of DNA photolyase

(2010) Klaus Brettel et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Spectro−Temporal Characterization of the Photoactivation Mechanism of Two New Oxidized Cryptochrome/Photolyase Photoreceptors

(2010) Johanna Brazard et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Animal cryptochromes mediate magnetoreception by an unconventional photochemical mechanism

(2010) Robert J. Gegear et al.   NATURE

Magnetic Compass of Birds Is Based on a Molecule with Optimal Directional Sensitivity

(2009) Thorsten Ritz et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Possible involvement of superoxide and dioxygen with cryptochrome in avian magnetoreception: Origin of Zeeman resonances observed by in vivo EPR spectroscopy

(2009) Hannah J. Hogben et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Conformational change induced by ATP binding correlates with enhanced biological function ofArabidopsiscryptochrome

(2009) Sarah Burney et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Characterization of Peroxides Formed by Riboflavin and Light Exposure of Milk. Detection of Urate Hydroperoxide as a Novel Oxidation Product

(2009) Morten R. Clausen et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Microsecond Light-Induced Proton Transfer to Flavin in the Blue Light Sensor Plant Cryptochrome

(2009) Thomas Langenbacher et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

What Makes the Difference between a Cryptochrome and DNA Photolyase? A Spectroelectrochemical Comparison of the Flavin Redox Transitions

(2009) Véronique Balland et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Chemical magnetoreception in birds: The radical pair mechanism

(2009) C. T. Rodgers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cryptochrome Mediates Light-Dependent Magnetosensitivity of Drosophila's Circadian Clock

(2009) Taishi Yoshii et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Ultrafast Dynamics and Anionic Active States of the Flavin Cofactor in Cryptochrome and Photolyase

(2008) Ya-Ting Kao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Cryptochrome mediates light-dependent magnetosensitivity in Drosophila

(2008) Robert J. Gegear et al.   NATURE

Chemical compass model of avian magnetoreception

(2008) Kiminori Maeda et al.   NATURE

Human and Drosophila Cryptochromes Are Light Activated by Flavin Photoreduction in Living Cells

(2008) Nathalie Hoang et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY