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Dr Daniel Martin working in the Matyushov group has recently took advantage of one of the fastest high performance supercomputers (Anton, D. E. Shaw) to look at electron tunneling in proteins. Membrane-bound bc1 complex is one of the key elements of biology’s energy production chain in mitochondria of animals and photosynthetic centers of bacteria. Longer than 10 microseconds of fully atomistic computer simulations have allowed for the first time to study the protein's low frequency motions driving electron transfer. A broad range of fluctuations, spanning from picoseconds to microseconds, affects the transition. Surprisingly, slow motions, in the range 0.1-1.6 microseconds turned out to be particularly important. This work recently appeared in the J. Chem. Phys. 142, 161101 (2015).
Recent news from the department
Resolving the weak force: ASU postdoc is co-author in research breakthrough
March 15, 2019
Arizona State University physics alumnus David Blyth served as a key member of a team of scientists who, for the first time, has isolated and measured the weak force between protons and neutrons within the nucleus of an atom.
'Cracking the Glass Problem': ASU physics alumna part of international collaboration
March 13, 2019
Arizona State University physics doctoral alumna Varda Faghir Hagh is one of the physicists collaborating on an international level to learn as much as they can about glass and its behavior.
ASU physics student awarded national fellowship
March 4, 2019
The Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program awarded Glenn Randall the opportunity to pursue graduate research at ORNL.
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