"Electron transfer" refers to the movement of an electron from one atom or molecule to another. It is the process through which electrons are exchanged between particles, creating a flow of electric charge.
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Vedral notes that failure in
electron transfer in mitochondria has been linked to Parkinson's disease and to some cancers.
Why it matters:
Electron transfer by MtrC, an outer membrane cytochrome on S. oneidensis, can stabilize contaminants, mitigating their impact on the population and environment.
Bazant says researchers had not suspected, despite extensive research on lithium iron phosphate, that the material's electrochemical reactions might be limited by
electron transfer between two solids.
Researchers will now have a better sense of what is happening at the catalyst surface and an appreciation for the role of proton and
electron transfer processes in this chemistry.
Technical details of these research topics focus on light -
induced electron transfer reactions, both at surfaces and in transition - metal complexes, surface chemistry and photochemistry of semiconductor / liquid interfaces, novel uses of conducting organic polymers and polymer / conductor composites, and development of sensor arrays that use pattern recognition algorithms to identify odorants, mimicking the mammalian olfaction process.
As both an «electrograph» (meaning it can undergo
direct electron transfers from an electrode), and an «acetogen» (meaning it can direct nearly 90 - percent of its photosynthetic products towards acetic acid), M. thermoacetica serves as the ideal model organism for demonstrating the capabilities of this hybrid artificial photosynthesis system.
Ultrafast absorption spectroscopy reveals a change in mechanism when sites
for electron transfer become more distant.
This award is in recognition of his accomplishments that include seminal and novel theoretical advancements in
understanding electron transfer reactions at environmental interfaces and their impact on the field of geochemistry.
«We have shown that carbon nanotubes promote the conversion of light energy
into electron transfer within the chloroplasts,» Giraldo explains.
Discovery of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides from Varanus komodoensis (Komodo dragon) by Large Scale Analyses and De Novo - Assisted Sequencing using
Electron Transfer Dissociation Mass Spectrometry.
It
couples electron transfer from NADH to ubiquinone with proton translocation across the inner mitochondrial membrane and is involved in a wide range of human neurodegenerative disorders.
The simulations, based on the crystallographic structure of the reaction center from Rhodopseudomonas viridis, focus
on electron transfer from a bacteriopheophytin to a quinone and the subsequent back - reaction.
The mechanism by which this ultrafast charge redistribution proceeds, proposed theoretically by research team member Lorenz Cederbaum, has been named the «
Electron Transfer Mediated Decay» (ETMD).
For the power cord, they used bacterial and plant ferredoxin, an iron and sulfur protein that brings
about electron transfer in a number of reactions.
Biochemist Liang Shi of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory said: «We developed a unique system so we could
mimic electron transfer like it happens in cells.
Computational studies by the team's theoreticians showed that the dipeptide in the meta position was more compact,
making electron transfer faster, because of the smaller energy associated with the necessary twist in the scaffolding, or the ability to get closer to the electrode.
A New Fluorescent Probe for Protein Interactions More Proof of Outer Membrane Cytochrome Role in
Electron Transfer Scientists Show How Bacteria Move Electrons Across a Membrane
Because they can now follow transient species formed as a result of
electron transfer among communities in real time, Yu and her team are using this approach to study how microbial communities communicate with one another.
He received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, where he studied biological
electron transfer with Harry Gray.
Crane continued this work after graduate school in a fellowship at California Institute of Technology, where he combined his background in crystallography with spectroscopic methods and also learned how to use photochemical techniques to
initiate electron transfer reactions.
Their paper, titled «Independent initiation of
primary electron transfer in the two branches of the photosystem I reaction center,» appears in this week's online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Called «
single electron transfer - living radical polymerization,» the new method allows large molecules to be crafted very quickly.
This new information contributes to understanding protein stability and
electron transfer between cells and minerals, which is important for applications in synthetic biology such as biofuel production.
Applying femtosecond x-ray methods, researchers at the Max - Born - Institute in Berlin (Germany) and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland) observed an extremely fast,
collective electron transfer of ~ 100 molecular ions after excitation of a single electron in a crystal of transition metal complexes.
His work and role as director of the
Biological Electron Transfer and Catalysis Energy Frontier Research Center, funded by DOE's Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, have led him to close collaborations at PNNL.
This interface impacts areas as diverse as prolonging lithium - ion battery life, designing catalytic reactions that can convert biomass to biofuels, and
extracellular electron transfer in microbial communities where bacteria catalyze electrode surfaces and shuttle electrons externally, as in a microbial fuel cell.
A world leader in theoretical and computational chemistry, Hammes - Schiffer created a general theoretical formulation for proton -
coupled electron transfer reactions that elucidates how protons behave in reactions.
He decided to investigate how photochemistry and
electron transfer reactions influence two biological sensory systems: light - sensitive circadian clocks and redox - sensitive bacterial chemotaxis.
Source: «High - affinity binding and
direct electron transfer to solid metals by the Shewanella oneidensis MR - 1 outer membrane c - type cytochrome OmcA.»
It consists
of electron transfer to the originally ionized Ne atom matched by energy transfer away from the Ne, which leads to ionization of the second Kr atom nearby.
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