arXiv Open Access 2024

Quantum theory of a potential biological magnetic field sensor: radical pair mechanism in flavin adenine dinucleotide biradicals

Amirhosein Sotoodehfar Rishabh Hadi Zadeh-Haghighi Christoph Simon

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Recent studies in vitro and in vivo suggest that flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) on its own might be able to act as a biological magnetic field sensor. Motivated by these observations, in this study, we develop a detailed quantum theoretical model for the radical pair mechanism (RPM) for the flavin adenine biradical within the FAD molecule. We perform molecular dynamics simulations to determine the distance between the radicals on FAD, which we then feed into a quantum master equation treatment of the RPM. In contrast to previous semi-classical models which are limited to the low-field and high-field cases, our quantum model can predict the full magnetic field dependence of the transient absorption signal. Our model's predictions are consistent with experiments.

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physics.bio-ph physics.chem-ph quant-ph

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Amirhosein Sotoodehfar

Rishabh

Hadi Zadeh-Haghighi

Christoph Simon

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Sotoodehfar, A., Rishabh, Zadeh-Haghighi, H., Simon, C. (2024). Quantum theory of a potential biological magnetic field sensor: radical pair mechanism in flavin adenine dinucleotide biradicals. https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14580

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Tahun Terbit: 2024
Bahasa: en
Sumber Database: arXiv
Akses: Open Access ✓