Multifunctional Cytochrome c: Learning New Tricks from an Old Dog

D Alvarez-Paggi, L Hannibal, MA Castro… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Cytochrome c (cyt c) is a small soluble heme protein characterized by a relatively flexible
structure, particularly in the ferric form, such that it is able to sample a broad conformational …

Design of a single protein that spans the entire 2-V range of physiological redox potentials

P Hosseinzadeh, NM Marshall, KN Chacón… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
The reduction potential (E°′) is a critical parameter in determining the efficiency of most
biological and chemical reactions. Biology employs three classes of metalloproteins to cover …

[HTML][HTML] The role of protein dynamics and thermal fluctuations in regulating cytochrome c/cytochrome c oxidase electron transfer

D Alvarez-Paggi, U Zitare, DH Murgida - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this overview we present recent combined electrochemical, spectroelectrochemical,
spectroscopic and computational studies from our group on the electron transfer reactions of …

Electrostatically Driven Second-Sphere Ligand Switch between High and Low Reorganization Energy Forms of Native Cytochrome c

D Alvarez-Paggi, MA Castro, V Tórtora… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We have employed a combination of protein film voltammetry, time-resolved vibrational
spectroelectrochemistry and molecular dynamics simulations to evaluate the electron …

Long-range electron transfer in engineered azurins exhibits Marcus inverted region behavior

O Farver, P Hosseinzadeh, NM Marshall… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The Marcus theory of electron transfer (ET) predicts that while the ET rate constants increase
with rising driving force until it equals a reaction's reorganization energy, at higher driving …

Bifurcation of excited state trajectories toward energy transfer or electron transfer directed by wave function symmetry

PS Oviedo, LM Baraldo, A Cadranel - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - pnas.org
This work explores the concept that differential wave function overlap between excited states
can be engineered within a molecular chromophore. The aim is to control excited state wave …

Formation and Electronic Structure of an Atypical CuA Site

MO Ross, OS Fisher, MN Morgada… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
PmoD, a recently discovered protein from methane-oxidizing bacteria, forms a homodimer
with a dicopper CuA center at the dimer interface. Although the optical and electron …

The role of molecular crowding in long-range metalloprotein electron transfer: Dissection into site-and scaffold-specific contributions

UA Zitare, J Szuster, MF Scocozza, A Espinoza-Cara… - Electrochimica …, 2019 - Elsevier
Here we report the effect of molecular crowding on long-range protein electron transfer (ET)
and disentangle the specific responses of the redox site and the protein milieu. To this end …

Disentangling Electron Tunneling and Protein Dynamics of Cytochrome c through a Rationally Designed Surface Mutation

D Alvarez-Paggi, W Meister, U Kuhlmann… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Nonexponential distance dependence of the apparent electron-transfer (ET) rate has been
reported for a variety of redox proteins immobilized on biocompatible electrodes, thus …

Axial interactions in the mixed-valent CuA active site and role of the axial methionine in electron transfer

ML Tsai, RG Hadt, NM Marshall, TD Wilson… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - pnas.org
Within Cu-containing electron transfer active sites, the role of the axial ligand in type 1 sites
is well defined, yet its role in the binuclear mixed-valent CuA sites is less clear. Recently, the …