Electron tunneling through proteins

1. History 342 2. Activation barriers 343 2.1 Redox potentials 344 2.2 Reorganization energy 344 3. Electronic coupling 345 4. Ru-modified proteins 348 4.1 Reorganization energy 349 4.1.1 Cyt c 349 4.1.2 Azurin 350 4.2 Tunneling timetables 352 5. Multistep tunneling 357 6. Protein–protein reactions 359 6.1 Hemoglobin (Hb) hybrids 359 6.2 Cyt c /cyt b 5 complexes 360 6.3 Cyt c /cyt c peroxidase complexes 360 6.4 Zn–cyt c /Fe–cyt c crystals 361 7. Photosynthesis and respiration 362 7.1 Photosynthetic reaction centers (PRCs) 362 7.2 Cyt c oxidase (CcO) 364 8. Concluding remarks 365 9. Acknowledgments 366 10. References 366 Electron transfer processes are vital elements of energy transduction pathways in living…

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