Role of ligand substitution on long-range electron transfer in azurins

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3123-3129

  Farver, Ole ^a   Jeuken, Lars J C ^b   Canters, Gerard W ^b   Pecht, Israel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Azurin; Electron transfer; Enthalpy entropy compensation; Marcus theory; Pulse radiolysis

Indexed keywords

AZURIN;

ALCALIGENES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALCALIGENES; AZURIN; BINDING SITES; COPPER; CYSTINE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FREE RADICALS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034119402     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01317.x     Document Type: Article

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