Fundamental signatures of short- And long-range electron transfer for the blue copper protein azurin at Au/SAM junctions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2757-2762

  Khoshtariya, Dimitri E ^a,b,c,d   Dolidze, Tina D ^a,b,c   Shushanyan, Mikhael ^a,b   Davis, Kathryn L ^d   Waldeck, David H ^d   Van Eldik, Rudi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

^c Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics   (Georgia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron transfer mechanism; Pressure; Protein friction; Reorganization; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AZURIN; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AZURIN; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GOLD; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 77649240806     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910837107     Document Type: Article

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