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Electron Transport Through Homopeptides: Are They Really Good Conductors?

ABSTRACT: Motivated by recent experiments, we performed a theoretical study of electron transport through single-molecule junctions incorporating four kinds of homopeptides (based on alanine, glutamic acid, lysine, and tryptophan). Our results suggest that these molecules are rather insulating and operate in off-resonance tunneling as their main transport mechanism. We ascribe their poor performance as conductors to the high localization of their frontier orbitals. We found that binding scenarios in which side chains lie on the side of gold protuberances could give rise to an increase in conductance with respect to end-to-end binding configurations. These findings provide an insight into the conductance mechanism of the building blocks of proteins and identify key issues that need to be further investigated.

SUBMITTER: Zotti LA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6641635 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Electron Transport Through Homopeptides: Are They Really Good Conductors?

Zotti Linda A LA Cuevas Juan Carlos JC

ACS omega 20180403 4

Motivated by recent experiments, we performed a theoretical study of electron transport through single-molecule junctions incorporating four kinds of homopeptides (based on alanine, glutamic acid, lysine, and tryptophan). Our results suggest that these molecules are rather insulating and operate in off-resonance tunneling as their main transport mechanism. We ascribe their poor performance as conductors to the high localization of their frontier orbitals. We found that binding scenarios in which ...[more]

PMID: 31458620

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