Electronic structures of metal sites in proteins and models: contributions to function in blue copper proteins

EI Solomon, RK Szilagyi, S DeBeer George… - Chemical …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Approximately one-half of all known protein crystal structures in the protein data bank (PDB)
contain metal ion cofactors, which play vital roles in charge neutralization, structure, and …

Electron transmission through molecules and molecular interfaces

A Nitzan - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Electron transmission through molecules and molecular interfaces has been a
subject of intensive research due to recent interest in electron-transfer phenomena …

Polariton-mediated electron transfer via cavity quantum electrodynamics

A Mandal, TD Krauss, P Huo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We investigate the polariton-mediated electron transfer reaction in a model system with
analytic rate constant theory and direct quantum dynamical simulations. We demonstrate …

Long-range electron tunneling

JR Winkler, HB Gray - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014 - ACS Publications
Electrons have so little mass that in less than a second they can tunnel through potential
energy barriers that are several electron-volts high and several nanometers wide. Electron …

Electron tunneling through proteins

HB Gray, JR Winkler - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2003 - cambridge.org
1. History 3422. Activation barriers 3432.1 Redox potentials 3442.2 Reorganization energy
3443. Electronic coupling 3454. Ru-modified proteins 3484.1 Reorganization energy …

Proton-coupled electron transfer in biology: results from synergistic studies in natural and model systems

SY Reece, DG Nocera - Annual review of biochemistry, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) underpins energy conversion in biology. PCET may
occur with the unidirectional or bidirectional transfer of a proton and electron and may …

Protein electron transfer rates set by the bridging secondary and tertiary structure

DN Beratan, JN Betts, JN Onuchic - Science, 1991 - science.org
The rate of long-distance electron transfer in proteins rapidly decreases with distance, which
is indicative of an electron tunneling process. Calculations predict that the distance …

Controlled folding of micrometer-size structures

E Smela, O Inganäs, I Lundström - Science, 1995 - science.org
Several types of microactuators have been fabricated, from simple paddles to self-
assembling and-disassembling cubes. Conducting bilayers made of a layer of polymer and …

Electron transfer in ruthenium-modified proteins

JR Winkler, HB Gray - Chemical reviews, 1992 - ACS Publications
The electron-transfer (ET) reactions of metallo-proteins are potentially far more complex than
those of small molecules. Thestructural intricacies of proteins are largely responsible for the …

The crystal structure of manganese peroxidase from Phanerochaete chrysosporium at 2.06-A resolution

M Sundaramoorthy, K Kishi, MH Gold… - Journal of Biological …, 1994 - Elsevier
The crystal structure of manganese peroxidase (MnP) from the lignin-degrading
basidiomycetous fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium has been solved using molecular …