Probing the Electronic Structure of Fe-S Clusters: Ubiquitous Electron Transfer Centers in Metalloproteins Using Anion Photoelectron Spectroscopy in the Gas Phase

Principles of Mass Spectrometry Applied to Biomolecules

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 63-117

  Yang, Xin ^a,b   Wang, Xue Bin ^a,b   Fu, You Jun ^a,b   Wang, Lai Shen ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic structure probing of Fe S clusters with photoelectron spectroscopy (PES); ESI TOFMS PES technique; Sequential oxidation of 4Fe 4S cubane cluster

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; PROTEINS;

ANION PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; CUBANE CLUSTERS; ELECTRON TRANSFER CENTERS; ESI-TOFMS-PES TECHNIQUE; GASPHASE; METALLO-PROTEINS;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34247329390     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/047005042X.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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