MAgr
Britishabbreviation
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Last year, he published a paper in Nature Materials describing a protein complex that he dubbed MagR, which consists of iron crystals enveloped in a double helix of cryptochrome—the two main theories rolled into one.
From The New Yorker
“With such a small amount of iron, one has to ask whether in vivo, at physiological temperatures, MagR is capable of possessing magnetic properties at all,” he says.
From Nature
Xie gave CG8198 the new name of MagR, for magnetic receptor.
From Nature
He is also starting to look at the structure of MagR proteins in other animals, including humans.
From Nature
Variants in the human version of MagR might even relate to differences in people’s sense of direction, he suggests.
From Nature
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