These crystals show strong reorganization effects upon heating.
Molecular dynamic simulations are applied to study inner sphere reorganization effects on outer-sphere electron transfer (ET) reactions.
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The melting behaviour is analysed and it is shown that, only following quenching, are the observed multiple melting peaks associated with dynamic reorganization effects.
Moreover, immobilized cytc exchanges electrons more slowly upon CL binding possibly due to changes in solvent reorganization effects at the protein-SAM interface.
As a consequence of these factors, controlled irradiation does not constitute a viable means of investigating the melting behaviour of this polymer in the absence of reorganization effects.
Redox thermodynamics of HRP on the 3-MPT films, which is obtained from the temperature dependence of the reduction potential, suggests that the positive shift of redox potentials of HRP at the interface of 3-MPT originates from the solvent reorganization effects and conformational change of the polypeptide chain of HRP.
Because the solvent reorganization effects cancel exactly in the enthalpy and entropy, it follows that Δ G°′rc = − nFE°′ = Δ H°′rc,int – TΔ S°′rc,int.
The positive reduction entropy of native Cld is consistent with reduction-induced solvent reorganization effects in the catalytic site, since the decreased electrostatic interaction of the metal ion in its reduced form with the water molecules in the cavity should lead to a decrease in ordering.
Because reduction-induced solvent reorganization effects usually induce compensatory enthalpy and entropy changes, the corresponding enthalpic contribution can be factored out from the measured enthalpy change, finally allowing estimation of the protein-based contribution to Δ G°′rc = − nFE°′ = Δ H°′rc – TΔ S°′rc = Δ H°′rc,int + Δ H°′rc,solv – TΔ S°′rc,int – TΔ S°′rc,solv.
