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Electromagnetic fields may act directly on DNA

✍ Scribed by Martin Blank; Reba Goodman

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
194 KB
Volume
75
Category
Article
ISSN
0730-2312

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✦ Synopsis

A wide variety of environmental stimuli induce the expression of stress response genes, including high temperatures, hypoxia, heavy metal ions, and amino acid analogs. Stress genes are also induced by low frequency magnetic fields. The cellular response to magnetic fields is activated by unusually weak stimuli, and involves pathways only partially associated with heat shock stress. Since magnetic fields interact with moving charges, as we have shown in enzymes, it is possible that magnetic fields stimulate the stress response by interacting directly with moving electrons in DNA. In this paper, we review several lines of evidence that support this hypothesis.

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