Eur. Phys. J. D 20, 557-563 (2002)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2002-00154-7

Charge transport in a polypeptide chain

¹ Department of Life Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
² Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
³ Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, TU-Muenchen, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, 85747 Garching, Germany

Corresponding authors: ^a sysheu@ym.edu.tw - ^b schlag@ch.tum.de

Received: 1 February 2002
Revised: 26 May 2002
Published online: 13 September 2002

Abstract

Charge transport is one important example of signal transduction in a protein which is responsible for action at a distance, and is a fundamental process in biochemical action. A model is presented in which electronic effects interact with motional processes to combine into a bifunctional model. This model is investigated with new detailed molecular dynamics calculations and successfully explains such action at a distance.