Science news articles about 'proton transfers'

  • A surprising new kind of proton transfer

    ... or oxygen share electrons. Conventional wisdom has it that proton transfers can only happen using hydrogen bonds as conduits ... networks. Which means there could be unsuspected pathways for proton transfer in RNA and DNA and other biological processes -- especially ...
  • Unique adaptive evolution in snake proteins -- insight into vertebrate physiology

    ... , affecting key molecular functions such as proton transfer (which establishes a proton concentration gradient that drives ... of mitochondrial proteins, such as the channeling of oxygen, electrons, and protons through cytochrome C oxidase, have been fundamentally ...
  • Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein

    ... and their colleagues could actually resolve the early stage of this proton transfer reaction, taking snapshots of the vibrational ... need the wagging oscillation to persist throughout the proton transfer process, we only need it to position the chromophore ...
  • GFP In Motion

    Photochemistry: Ultrafast method reveals how green fluorescent protein changes during proton transfer.
  • Bochum's researchers discover proton diode

    ... . Eigen also published his central thesis on proton transfer in water in Angewandte Chemie in 1964. Klaus Gerwert was inspired by Manfred Eigen's winter ...
  • Watching electrons move in real time

    ... in real time but also observes a concerted electron and proton transfer that is quite different from any previously ... within crystal matrix. This channel was stabilized by the transfer of protons from adjacent ammonium groups into the channel ...
  • Extremely rapid water: RUB scientists decipher a protein-bound water chain

    ... molecule chain for a few milliseconds for the directed proton transfer. The combination of vibrational spectroscopy and biomolecular ... . These results are the solution to the riddle as to why proton transfer only functions in one direction at the uptake side and why ...
  • The smallest conceivable switch

    ... through the fine tip of the microscope stimulates the proton transfer, setting a specific configuration in the process ... happy about new insights into the mechanism behind the proton transfer resulting from their study. Knud Seufert ...
  • New study sheds light on evolutionary origin of oxygen-based cellular respiration

    ... to this mystery in the origin of an evolutionary innovation known as the "proton pump." To accelerate ATP-synthesis, aerobic ... structure of qNOR and discovered a channel acting as a proton transfer pathway for a key catalytic reaction ...
  • In chemical reactions, water adds speed without heat

    ... is present, hydrogen diffuses via a proton transfer, or proton "hopping," mechanism, in which hydrogen atoms ... mediated by water, such as nanofluidics, nanotube sensors, and transfer across biological membranes, among others. The U ...
  • A new way of looking at photosystem II

    ... -calcium cluster and drive a series of oxidations and proton transfers that in the final S4 state forms the bond between oxygen atoms that yields molecular oxygen ...
  • Team identifies proton pathway in photosynthesis

    ... ) —A Purdue University-led team has revealed the proton transfer pathway responsible for a majority of energy storage in photosynthesis. Through photosynthesis, plants, algae ...

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