Title : Light-activated cryptochrome reacts with molecular oxygen to form a flavin-superoxide radical pair consistent with magnetoreception.

Pub. Date : 2011 Jun 17

PMID : 21467031






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1 Here, we give evidence of a mechanism for the reverse reaction, namely dark reoxidation of protein-bound flavin in Arabidopsis thaliana cryptochrome (AtCRY1) by molecular oxygen that involves formation of a spin-correlated FADH( )-superoxide radical pair. Oxygen cryptochrome 1 Arabidopsis thaliana