Quantifying electron transfer reactions in biological systems: What interactions play the major role?

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sjulstok, Emil ^a   Olsen, Jógvan Magnus Haugaard ^a,b   Solov'Yov, Ilia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,6-DINITRO-O-CRESOL; DINITRO ORTHO CRESOL; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; KINETICS; METABOLISM; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARABIDOPSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DINITROCRESOLS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; KINETICS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84951304783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18446     Document Type: Article

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