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Nuclear-magnetic control over energy carrier synthesis in living organisms

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Synthesis of molecular energy carriers in living organisms is performed by enzymes, molecular “engines.” All of them work only in the presence of magnesium ions. However, if natural magnesium in enzymes is substituted by its pure isotopic form 25Mg, the generation of energy carriers will increase two to three times. This outstanding discovery of the authors of this article underlies the development of new medicines for curing hypoxia and heart failure.

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Original Russian Text © A.L. Buchachenko, D.A. Kuznetsov, 2008, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2008, Vol. 78, No. 7, pp. 579–583.

Academician Anatolii Leonidovich Buchachenko is an RAS advisor and scientific supervisor in the Department of Theory at the RAS Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics. Dmitrii Anatol’evich Kuznetsov, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), is a leading researcher at the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, RAS.

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Buchachenko, A.L., Kuznetsov, D.A. Nuclear-magnetic control over energy carrier synthesis in living organisms. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 78, 346–350 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331608040035

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