The Search for Relay Stations. Long-distance Electron Transfer in Peptides

Bernd Giese; Sonja Kracht; Meike Cordes

doi:10.2533/chimia.2013.855

The Search for Relay Stations. Long-distance Electron Transfer in Peptides

Authors

Bernd Giese University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 9, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Sonja Kracht University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 9, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Meike Cordes Bachem AG, Hauptstrasse 144, CH-4416 Bubendorf, Switzerland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2013.855

Keywords:

Electron transfer, Hopping, Mineral respiration, Peptide

Abstract

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.