Electron tunnelling through azurin is mediated by the active site Cu ion

Chemical Physics Letters

Volumn 376, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 625-630

  Alessandrini, Andrea ^a   Gerunda, Mimmo ^a   Canters, G W ^b   Verbeet, M Ph ^b   Facci, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZURIN; BUFFER; COPPER ION; GOLD; METALLOPROTEIN; ZINC;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0141673314     PISSN: 00092614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2614(03)01020-0     Document Type: Article

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