In: Nucleic Acids Research, 1998, vol. 26, no. 17, p. 4063-4067
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In: ChemBioChem, 2018, vol. 19, no. 9, p. 922–926
In nature, proteins serve as media for long‐distance electron transfer (ET) to carry out redox reactions in distant compartments. This ET occurs either by a single‐step superexchange or through a multi‐step charge hopping process, which uses side chains of amino acids as stepping stones. In this study we demonstrate that Phe can act as a relay amino acid for long‐distance electron...
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In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2012, vol. 116, p. 2284–2293
Charge transfer within and between biomolecules remains a highly active field of biophysics. Due to the complexities of real systems, model compounds are a useful alternative to study the mechanistic fundamentals of charge transfer. In recent years, such model experiments have been underpinned by molecular simulation methods as well. In this work, we study electron hole transfer in helical model...
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In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2015, vol. 119, no. 22, p. 6584–6590
Electron transfer over long distances in proteins by a hopping process requires transient relay stations that can harbor charge and spin for a short time span. Certain easily oxidizable or reducible side chains may assume that role, but it has been shown that charge transport in peptides can also take place in the absence of such groups which implies that the peptide backbone provides for hopping...
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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: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011, vol. 50, no. 8, p. 1926-1930
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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: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014, vol. 118, no. 16, p. 4261–4272
Charge transfer in peptides and proteins can occur on different pathways, depending on the energetic landscape as well as the coupling between the involved orbitals. Since details of the mechanism and pathways are difficult to access experimentally, different modeling strategies have been successfully applied to study these processes in the past. These can be based on a simple empirical pathway...
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In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012, vol. 14, no. 40, p. 13785-13788
The life time of aromatic radical cations is limited by reactions like β-elimination, dimerization, and addition to the solvent. Here we show that the attachment of such a radical cation to the C-terminal end of an α-/3₁₀-helical peptide further reduces its life time by two orders of magnitude. For PPII-helical peptides, such an effect is only observed if the peptide contains an adjacent...
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