In: Angewandte Chemie, 2015, vol. 127, no. 10, p. 2954-2958
Einige Mikroorganismen zeigen anaerobe mineralische Respiration, bei der sie Metallionen zu Metallnanopartikeln reduzieren. Hierbei werden Peptide als Medium für den Elektronentransfer (ET) verwendet. Diese Reaktionsklasse wird anhand eines Modellpeptids und Silber als Metall diskutiert. Erstaunlicherweise können Silberionen, die von Peptiden mit Histidin als silberbindender Aminosäure und...
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In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2017, vol. 56, no. 21, p. 5926-5930
The reduction of Ag⁺ ions to Ag⁰ atoms is a highly endergonic reaction step, only the aggregation to Agn clusters leads to an exergonic process. These elementary chemical reactions play a decisive role if Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) are generated by electron transfer (ET) reactions to Ag⁺ ions. We studied the formation of AgNPs in peptides by photoinduced ET, and in...
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In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015, vol. 54, no. 10, p. 2912–2916
Some microorganisms perform anaerobic mineral respiration by reducing metal ions to metal nanoparticles, using peptide aggregates as medium for electron transfer (ET). Such a reaction type is investigated here with model peptides and silver as the metal. Surprisingly, Ag⁺ ions bound by peptides with histidine as the Ag⁺-binding amino acid and tyrosine as photoinducible electron donor cannot...
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In: CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry, 2013, vol. 67, no. 12, p. 855–858
Nature uses peptide aggregates as soft materials for electron transfer over long distances. These reactions occur in a multistep hopping reaction with various functional groups as relay stations that are located in the side chain and in the backbone of the peptides.
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