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Reactions of electron-transfer proteins at electrodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

Fraser A. Armstrong ,
H. Allen O. Hill  and
Nicholas J. Walton
Fraser A. Armstrong
Affiliation:
Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QR
H. Allen O. Hill
Affiliation:
Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QR
Nicholas J. Walton
Affiliation:
Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QR
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Studies of electron-transfer reactions of redox proteins have, in recent years, attracted widespread interest and attention. Progress has been evident from both physical and biological standpoints, with the increasing availability of three-dimensional structural data for many small electron-transfer proteins prompting a variety of systematic investigations (Isied, 1985). Most recently, attention has been directed towards questions concerning the elementary transfer of electrons between spatially remote redox sites, and the nature of protein–protein interactions which, for intermolecular processes, stabilize specific precursor complexes which may be optimally juxtaposed for electron-transfer. These and other issues, including the necessary reversibility of protein interfacial interactions and the dynamic properties of proteins as carriers of electrons in biological electron-transport systems, are now being addressed in the rapidly emerging field of direct (unmediated) protein electrochemistry. It is our intention in this article to discuss developments made in this area and highlight points which we believe to have the most bearing on our current understanding of diffusion-dominated, protein-mediated electron transport at electrode surfaces. First we shall outline some basic considerations which are best considered with reference to homogeneous systems.

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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , August 1985 , pp. 261 - 322
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