U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research: Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Studies of Metalloproteins

该奖项支持弗吉尼亚州里士满联邦大学化学系Fred Hawkridge教授和日本熊本大学应用化学系Isao Taniguchi教授之间为期两年的合作研究项目。该联合研究涉及电极表面的界面特性和金属蛋白的特性，这些特性控制了电极表面蛋白质的电子转移反应。尽管许多不同的研究小组在这一领域已经建立了很多成果，但在这个项目中要做的工作将汇集电化学、光谱电化学和表面表征方法来探测这些界面反应。这些研究应该加强研究人员的努力，以阐明蛋白质和酶在电极表面的异质ET动力学。谷口教授在光谱电化学方面的专业知识将对电极表面连接物质的鉴定具有不可估量的价值，并将为Hawkridge教授评估配体结合对生物分子电化学特性的影响提供基础。＊＊＊

9315077 Hawkridge This award supports a two-year cooperative research project between Professor Fred Hawkridge, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, and Professor Isao Taniguchi, Department of Applied Chemistry, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. The joint research involves studies of the interfacial characteristics of electrode surfaces and the properties of metalloproteins that control electron transfer reactions of proteins in general at electrode surfaces. Although much has been established in this field in many different research groups, work to be done in this project would bring together electrochemical, spectroelectrochemical, and surface characterization methods to probe these interfacial reactions. These investigations should strengthen the investigators' efforts to elucidate heterogeneous ET kinetics of proteins and enzymes at electrode surfaces. Professor Taniguchi's expertise in spectroelectrochemistry will be invaluable to the identification of the ligated species at the electrode surface and will prove the underpinning to Professor Hawkridge's assessment of the effects of ligand binding on the electrochemical properties of biomolecules. ***