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LASER PHYSICS
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 125-138Publisher
MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1134/S1054660X09170186
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- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM054052] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Long-distance electron tunneling is a fundamental process which is involved in energy generation in cells. The tunneling occurs between the metal centers in the respiratory enzymes, typically over distances up to 20 or 30 angstrom. For such distances, the tunneling time-i. e., the time during which an electron passes through the body of the protein molecule from one metal center to another-is of the order of 10 fs. Here the process of electron tunneling in proteins is reviewed, and a possibility of experimental observation of real-time electron tunneling in a single protein molecule is discussed.
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