Abstract
Lights, camera, action! The general mechanism of biomolecular recognition introduced by Pauling more than 50 years ago has now been brought to the movie screen (see still frame; D: D-Phe-D-Phe, L: L-Phe-L-Phe). With STM movies, the chiral-recognition process of individual adsorbed di-phenylalanine molecules is followed to illustrate the dynamic induced-fit mechanism at the single-molecule level.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 4492-4495 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition |
Volume | 46 |
Issue number | 24 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- Chirality
- Density functional calculations
- Molecular recognition
- Peptides
- Scanning probe microscopy
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Catalysis
- General Chemistry