Molecular and electronic structure of the peptide subunit of Geobacter sulfurreducens conductive pili from first principles

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 116, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 8023-8030

  Feliciano, Gustavo T ^a,b   Da Silva, Antonio J R ^a   Reguera, Gemma ^c   Artacho, Emilio ^b,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^d DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC AMINO ACID; CONDUCTIVE FILAMENTS; DELOCALIZATIONS; ELECTRON CONDUCTION; ELECTRONIC BAND GAPS; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; HELICAL PEPTIDE; HOMO-LUMO GAPS; HOMOLOGY MODELS; METAL OXIDES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; OPTIMAL ENVIRONMENT; PEPTIDE BONDS; SPATIAL REGIONS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

AMINO ACIDS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTIMIZATION;

PEPTIDES;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; GEOBACTER; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTRONS; GEOBACTER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84864771239     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp302232p     Document Type: Article

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