Structural determination of a filamentous chaperone to fabricate electronically conductive metalloprotein nanowires

YX Chen, NL Ing, F Wang, D Xu, NB Sloan, NT Lam… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The transfer of electrons through protein complexes is central to cellular respiration.
Exploiting proteins for charge transfer in a controllable fashion has the potential to …

Fabrication of Electronically Conductive Protein‐Heme Nanowires for Power Harvesting

L Travaglini, NT Lam, A Sawicki, HJ Cha, D Xu… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Electronically conductive protein‐based materials can enable the creation of bioelectronic
components and devices from sustainable and nontoxic materials, while also being well …

An expandable, modular de novo protein platform for precision redox engineering

GH Hutchins, CEM Noble, HA Bunzel… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The electron-conducting circuitry of life represents an as-yet untapped resource of exquisite,
nanoscale biomolecular engineering. Here, we report the characterization and structure of a …

A 300-fold conductivity increase in microbial cytochrome nanowires due to temperature-induced restructuring of hydrogen bonding networks

PJ Dahl, SM Yi, Y Gu, A Acharya, C Shipps, J Neu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Although proteins are considered as nonconductors that transfer electrons only up to 1 to 2
nanometers via tunneling, Geobacter sulfurreducens transports respiratory electrons over …

Single-Molecule Mapping of Long-range Electron Transport for a Cytochrome b562 Variant

EAD Pia, Q Chi, DD Jones, JE Macdonald, J Ulstrup… - Nano …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Cytochrome b 562 was engineered to introduce a cysteine residue at a surface-exposed
position to facilitate direct self-assembly on a Au (111) surface. The confined protein …

Orientation-dependent electron transport in a single redox protein

EA Della Pia, M Elliott, DD Jones, JE Macdonald - ACS nano, 2012 - ACS Publications
The redox-active protein cytochrome b 562 has been engineered to introduce pairs of thiol
groups in the form of cysteine residues at specified sites. Successful STM imaging of the …

Electronic conductivity in biomimetic α-helical peptide nanofibers and gels

NL Ing, RK Spencer, SH Luong, HD Nguyen… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Examples of long-range electronic conductivity are rare in biological systems. The
observation of micrometer-scale electronic transport through protein wires produced by …

[引用][C] Biotemplated metal nanowires using hyperthermophilic protein filaments

JM Slocik, SN Kim, TA Whitehead, DS Clark, RR Naik - Small, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The fabrication of multifunctional nanostructures with complex geometries is necessary for
advancement in the field of nanoelectronics and nanosensors. This is evident by the limited …

Solvent-induced assembly of microbial protein nanowires into superstructured bundles

YL Sun, BJ Montz, R Selhorst, HY Tang, J Zhu… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein-based electronic biomaterials represent an attractive alternative to traditional
metallic and semiconductor materials due to their environmentally benign production and …

Mesoscopic to macroscopic electron transfer by hopping in a crystal network of cytochromes

J Huang, J Zarzycki, MR Gunner… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Rapid and directed electron transfer (ET) is essential for biological processes. While the
rates of ET over 1–2 nm in proteins can largely be described by simplified nonadiabatic …