Published 2024
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The Hunt for Biological Semiconductors: using BLAST to search the known protein space for unknown diode-like proteins
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- 1. Precision Medicine Lab (CECOS RMI)
- 2. Pak Turk Maarif International Schools and Colleges
- 3. Centre for Genomic Sciences, Rehman Medical Institute
- 4. Department of Bioengineering, University of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- 5. Department of Bioengineering, University of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Swat, Pakistan
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There has been considerable speculation in recent years on the nature of the current carriers in the electrical conductivity of proteins [1]. Evans and Gergely concluded that dry proteins should be electronic semiconductors with an interband gap of about 3.0 eV [2]. A more recent study by Cantiello et al. (2024) suggested strong rectification in purified actin paracrystals with a nonlinear electrical conductance [3].
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References
- Rosenberg, B. (1962). "Electrical Conductivity of Proteins." Nature, 193, 364–365.
- Evans et al. (1949). "Biochimica et Biophysica Acta," 3, 188.
- Cantiello et al. (2024). "Actin Paracrystals Display Double Schottky Diode-Like Electrical Behavior." Advanced Electronic Materials, 10, 2300144.