Aguas funcionales en la transferencia de protones intraproteína monitoreada por espectroscopia de diferencias FTIR

Florian Garczarek1, Klaus Gerwert

  • 1Lehrstuhl für Biophysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.

Nature
|November 11, 2005
PubMed
Resumen

Este estudio revela cómo la bacteriorhodopsina utiliza arreglos específicos de agua para la transferencia controlada de protones, a diferencia de la migración aleatoria en agua líquida. El agua intraproteína es crucial para las funciones biológicas.

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