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Inside Cover, Volume 112, Issue 24
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/qua.24359
Subject(s) - electron transfer , cover (algebra) , variety (cybernetics) , computer science , chemistry , physics , crystallography , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , engineering , organic chemistry
Cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) catalyzes the four‐electron reduction of molecular oxygen to water and couples it to the transmembrane proton transfer in the respiratory chain of mitochondria and bacteria. The CuA site functions as the proximate electron‐transfer intermediate from an electron source in CcO. It has characteristic structural features, providing an electronic structure suitable for rapid electron transfer. X‐ray crystallographic structures show the structural variety of the Cu 2 S 2 core of the CuA site. On page 3756 , Yu Takano and colleagues address the origin of the structural variety of the Cu 2 S 2 core of the CuA site, using the density functional theory.