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Electron Tunneling in Biology: When Does it Matter?
Article in ACS omega, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Tunneling Times in an Asymmetric Harmonic Double-Well with Application to Electron Transfers in Biological Macromolecules.ACS omega · 2024Article
- Conductance Channels in a Single-Entity Enzyme.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2024Article
- Unveiling the role of inorganic nanoparticles in Earth's biochemical evolution through electron transfer dynamics.iScience · 2024Review
- New classifications for quantum bioinformatics: Q-bioinformatics, QCt-bioinformatics, QCg-bioinformatics, and QCr-bioinformatics.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2024Review
- Inorganic Fe-O and Fe-S oxidoreductases: paradigms for prebiotic chemistry and the evolution of enzymatic activity in biology.Frontiers in chemistry · 2024Review
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Abstract
Electrons can tunnel between cofactor molecules positioned along biological electron transport chains up to a distance of ≃ 20 Å on the millisecond time scale of enzymatic turnover. This tunneling range determines the design of biological energy chains facilitating the cross-membrane transport of electrons. Tunneling distance and cofactors' redox potentials become the main physical parameters affecting the rate of electron transport. In addition, universal charge-transport properties are assigned to all proteins, making protein identity, flexibility, and dynamics insignificant. This paradigm is challenged by dynamical models of electron transfer, showing that the electron hopping rate is constant within the crossover distance
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