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SUBMITTER: Saura P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6932871 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saura Patricia P Frey Daniel M DM Gamiz-Hernandez Ana P AP Kaila Ville R I VRI
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 20190501 43
Biological energy conversion is catalysed by proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions that form the chemical basis of respiratory and photosynthetic enzymes. Despite recent advances in structural, biophysical, and computational experiments, the mechanistic principles of these reactions still remain elusive. Based on common functional features observed in redox enzymes, we study here generic mechanistic models for water-mediated long-range PCET reactions. We show how a redox reaction wit ...[more]