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

9315077霍克里奇该奖项支持弗吉尼亚州里士满弗吉尼亚联邦大学化学系弗雷德·霍克里奇教授和日本熊本大学应用化学系谷口伊索教授之间为期两年的合作研究项目。这项联合研究包括研究电极表面的界面特征和控制蛋白质在电极表面的电子转移反应的金属蛋白质的性质。尽管许多不同的研究小组已经在这一领域建立了许多基础，但这个项目需要做的工作是将电化学、光谱电化学和表面表征方法结合起来探索这些界面反应。这些研究应该会加强研究人员在阐明电极表面蛋白质和酶的异相ET动力学方面的努力。谷口教授在光谱电化学方面的专业知识将对识别电极表面的连接物种非常有价值，并将为霍克里奇教授评估配体结合对生物分子电化学性质的影响奠定基础。***

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. ***