• Anna A. Makarova
  • Elena V. Grachova
  • Vera S. Neudachina
  • Lada Yashina
  • Anja Blüher
  • Serguei Molodtsov
  • Michael Mertig
  • Hermann Ehrlich
  • Vera K. Adamchuk
  • Clemens Laubschat
  • Denis Vyalikh
The mechanisms of interaction between inorganic matter and biomolecules, as well as properties of resulting hybrids, are receiving growing interest due to the rapidly developing field of bionanotechnology. The majority of potential applications for metal-biohybrid structures require stability of these systems under vacuum conditions, where their chemistry is elusive and may differ dramatically from the interaction between biomolecules and metal ions in vivo. Here we report for the first time a photoemission and X-ray absorption study of the formation of a hybrid metal-protein system, tracing step-by-step the chemical interactions between the protein and metals (Cu and Fe) in vacuo. Our experiments reveal stabilization of the enol form of peptide bonds as the result of protein-metal interactions for both metals. The resulting complex with copper appears to be rather stable. In contrast, the system with iron decomposes to form inorganic species like oxide, carbide, nitride and cyanide.
Язык оригиналаанглийский
Номер статьи8710
ЖурналScientific Reports
Том5
СостояниеОпубликовано - 2015
СобытиеInterdisciplinary Surface Science Conference (ISSC-20) - Birmingham, Великобритания
Продолжительность: 29 мар 20151 апр 2015
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