Publication Date:
1994-02-18
Description:
A change in radical pair recombination rates is one of the few mechanisms by which a magnetic field can interact with a biological system. The kinetic parameter Vmax/Km (where Km is the Michaelis constant) for the coenzyme B12-dependent enzyme ethanolamine ammonia lyase was decreased 25 percent by a static magnetic field near 0.1 tesla (1000 gauss) with unlabeled ethanolamine and decreased 60 percent near 0.15 tesla with perdeuterated ethanolamine. This effect is likely caused by a magnetic field-induced change in intersystem crossing rates between the singlet and triplet spin states in the [cob(II)alamin:5'-deoxyadenosyl radical] spin-correlated radical pair.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Harkins, T T -- Grissom, C B -- ES05728/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Feb 18;263(5149):958-60.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8310292" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Deuterium
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Ethanolamine
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Ethanolamine Ammonia-Lyase/*metabolism
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Ethanolamines/metabolism
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Kinetics
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*Magnetics
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Photolysis
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Vitamin B 12/pharmacology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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