Light-activated Cryptochrome Reacts with Molecular Oxygen to Form a Flavin–Superoxide Radical Pair Consistent with Magnetoreception
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- 1 June 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Biological Chemistry
- Vol. 286 (24), 21033-21040
- https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m111.228940
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