Do multiheme cytochromes containing close-packed heme groups have a band structure formed from the heme π and π* orbitals?

JH van Wonderen, A Morales-Florez, TA Clarke… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Multiheme cytochromes (MHCs) are bacterial electron-transfer proteins. We show from
optical spectra and calculations that some of these cytochromes probably contain occupied …

Electron flow in multiheme bacterial cytochromes is a balancing act between heme electronic interaction and redox potentials

M Breuer, KM Rosso… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The naturally widespread process of electron transfer from metal reducing bacteria to
extracellular solid metal oxides entails unique biomolecular machinery optimized for long …

Coherent electron transport across a 3 nm bioelectronic junction made of multi-heme proteins

Z Futera, I Ide, B Kayser, K Garg, X Jiang… - The journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Multi-heme cytochromes (MHCs) are fascinating proteins used by bacterial organisms to
shuttle electrons within, between, and out of their cells. When placed in solid-state electronic …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative structure-potentio-spectroscopy of the Shewanella outer membrane multiheme cytochromes

MJ Edwards, AJ Gates, JN Butt, DJ Richardson… - Current Opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Many species of bacteria can generate energy in the anoxic subsurface by directly coupling
intracellular oxidative reactions to the reduction of extracellular metal oxides. Coupling these …

Molecular and structural basis of electron transfer in tetra-and octa-heme cytochromes

M Czjzek, F Payan, R Haser - Biochimie, 1994 - Elsevier
The first three-dimensional structure of a dimeric, octa-heme cytochrome c 3 (M r 26000)
from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans Norway, established at 2.2 Å resolution, is briefly presented …

Electronic coupling between heme electron-transfer centers and its decay with distance depends strongly on relative orientation

DMA Smith, KM Rosso, M Dupuis… - The Journal of …, 2006 - ACS Publications
A method for calculating the electron-transfer matrix element V RP using density functional
theory Kohn− Sham orbitals is presented and applied to heme dimers of varying relative …

Mechanisms of electron transfer in two decaheme cytochromes from a metal-reducing bacterium

NS Wigginton, KM Rosso… - The Journal of Physical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
In this report, we analyze and interpret single-molecule current− voltage (I− V) tunneling
spectra collected for two decaheme c-type cytochromes using a scanning tunneling …

Photosensitised Multiheme Cytochromes as Light‐Driven Molecular Wires and Resistors

JH van Wonderen, D Li, SEH Piper, CY Lau… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Multiheme cytochromes possess closely packed redox‐active hemes arranged as chains
spanning the tertiary structure. Here we describe five variants of a representative multiheme …

The tetraheme cytochrome from Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 shows thermodynamic bias for functional specificity of the hemes

BM Fonseca, IH Saraiva, CM Paquete… - JBIC Journal of …, 2009 - Springer
Bacteria of the genus Shewanella contain an abundant small tetraheme cytochrome in their
periplasm when growing anaerobically. Data collected for the protein isolated from S …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative multi-frequency EPR study of dipolar interaction in tetra-heme cytochromes

WR Hagen, RO Louro - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Distances between Fe ions in multiheme cytochromes are sufficiently short to make the
intramolecular dipole-dipole interaction between hemes probable. In the analysis of EPR …