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It is shown that enzymatic reactions with electron transfer can play the role of magnetosensitive stages of intracellular processes. The system of von Neumann-Liouville equations for the spin density matrices of the participants of ion-radical enzymatic processes in cells was solved using the steady-state approximation. Within the framework of the Δg mechanism of spin conversion of ion-radical pairs of the substrates of enzymatic reactions, the magnetic-field dependences of the rates of enzymatic processes are calculated. Magnetic field effects can be used as evidence for the ion-radical mechanism of enzymatic reactions and as a means of determining their kinetic characteristics.
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Original Russian Text © U.G. Shevchenko, V.L. Berdinskii, 2011, published in Khimicheskaya Fizika, 2011, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 78–83.
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Shevchenko, U.G., Berdinskii, V.L. Enzymic processes as a mechanism of biological magnetoreception. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. B 5, 519–524 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990793111020230
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