Spin-dependent electron transmission through bacteriorhodopsin embedded in purple membrane

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

Volumn 110, Issue 37, 2013, Pages 14872-14876

  Mishra, Debabrata ^a   Markus, Tal Z ^a   Naaman, Ron ^a   Kettner, Matthias ^b   Göhler, Benjamin ^b   Zacharias, Helmut ^b   Friedman, Noga ^a   Sheves, Mordechai ^a   Fontanesi, Claudio ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chirality; Electrochemistry; Electron transfer; Magnetic effect

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM OXIDE; BACTERIORHODOPSIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GOLD; NICKEL; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PURPLE MEMBRANE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CHIRALITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSFER; MAGNETIC EFFECT;

BACTERIORHODOPSINS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PURPLE MEMBRANE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84883757347     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1311493110     Document Type: Article

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