Chemistry: The nature of aqueous tunneling pathways between electron-transfer proteins

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5752, 2005, Pages 1311-1313

  Lin, Jianping ^a   Balabin, Ilya A ^a   Beratan, David N ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; GROWTH KINETICS; PROTEINS; REDOX REACTIONS;

ELECTRON TRANSFER KINETICS; WATER MOLECULES; WEAK DISTANCE DECAY;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

ALPHA AMIDATING ENZYME; AZURIN; CHLORIDE; CYTOCHROME B5; CYTOCHROME C2; DNA; HEME; PORPHYRIN; PROTEIN; SODIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRYPSIN; WATER;

CHEMISTRY;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BROWNIAN DYNAMICS; CELL RESPIRATION; CONTACT ANGLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; IONIC STRENGTH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CYTOCHROMES B5; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PORPHYRINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 28144438785     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1118316     Document Type: Article

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