Darwin at the molecular scale: Selection and variance in electron tunnelling proteins including cytochrome c oxidase

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1472, 2006, Pages 1295-1305

  Moser, Christopher C ^a   Page, Christopher C ^a   Dutton, P Leslie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Stellar Chance Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytochrome oxidase; Electron and nuclear tunnelling; Oxidoreduction catalysis

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CYTOCHROME; ELECTRON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROTEIN; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748343422     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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