Interheme electron tunneling in cytochrome c oxidase

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

Volumn 107, Issue 50, 2010, Pages 21470-21475

  Kaila, Ville R I ^a,b,d   Johansson, Mikael P ^b,c   Sundholm, Dage ^b   Wikström, Mårten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological electron transfer; Heme copper oxidases; Moser Dutton ruler; Reorganization energy

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; HEME; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; DENSITY; DONOR SITE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ENERGY; EUKARYOTE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN AFFINITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COPPER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ELECTRONS; HEME; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 78650754296     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005889107     Document Type: Article

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