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CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 483, Issue 1-3, Pages 1-9Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2009.10.051
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- NIH
- NSF
- GCEP (Stanford)
- CCSER (Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation)
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
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Electron transfers in photosynthesis and respiration commonly occur between metal-containing cofactors that are separated by large molecular distances. Employing laser flash-quench triggering methods, we have shown that 20-angstrom, coupling-limited Fe-II-Ru-III and Cu-I-Ru-III electron tunneling in Ru-modified cytochromes and blue copper proteins can occur on the microsecond timescale both in solutions and crystals. Redox equivalents can be transferred even longer distances by multistep tunneling, often called hopping, through intervening amino acid side chains. Our work has established that 20-angstrom hole hopping through an intervening tryptophan is two orders of magnitude faster than single-step electron tunneling in a Re-modified blue copper protein. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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