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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
A model system for the electrochemical investigation of vectorial electron transfer in biological systems was designed, assembled and characterized. Gold electrodes, functionalized with a -OCH3 terminated, aromatic self-assembled monolayer, were used as a substrate for the adsorption of variants of copper-containing, redox metalloprotein azurin. The engineered azurin bears a polyhistidine tag at its C-terminus. Thanks to the presence of the solvent exposed tag, which chelates Cu2+ ions in solution, we introduced an exogenous redox centre. The different reduction potentials of the two redox centres and their positioning with respect to the surface are such that electron transfer from the exogenous copper centre and the electrode is mediated by the native azurin active site, closely paralleling electron transfer processes in naturally occurring multicentre metalloproteins.
Publisher: 
Pergamon
Publication date: 
1 Oct 2015
Authors: 

Stefano Casalini, Marcello Berto, Alessandro Kovtun, Alessandra Operamolla, Giulia Di Rocco, Paolo Facci, Andrea Liscio, Gianluca M Farinola, Marco Borsari, Carlo A Bortolotti

Biblio References: 
Volume: 178 Pages: 638-646
Origin: 
Electrochimica Acta