Gray, Harry (2016) Electron flow through metalloproteins. In: 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, March 13-17, 2016, San Diego, CA. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160404-132052605
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Abstract
Understanding the underlying physics and chem. of biol. electron transfer processes is the goal of much of the work in my lab. Employing laser flash-quench triggering methods, my coworkers and I have shown that long-range (1.5 to 2.5 nm) electron tunneling reactions in Ru-modified cytochromes and blue copper proteins occur on microsecond to nanosecond timescales. Redox equiv. can be transferred even longer distances by multistep tunneling (called hopping) through intervening tyrosines and tryptophans: notably, in our work on cytochrome P 450 and azurin, we have found that long-range hole hopping through intervening tryptophans can be orders of magnitude faster than single-step tunneling. Could hole hopping through Tyr/Trp chains protect redox enzymes from oxidative damage. Jay Winkler and I think so: by examg. the structures of P450s and many other oxygenases, we have identified conserved Tyr/Trp chains that could transfer holes rapidly from uncoupled high-potential intermediates to reductants in contact with protein surface sites.
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