The interest in conductive materials is due to possible applications of organic compounds to the field of electronics[1].
Two branch are presents on this field: bioelectronics and molecular electronics: the first one deals with electronic applications of particular property of biological samples, while the second deals with the use of organic molecules as elements for ordinary electronics.
One of the main problems for both is to use particular molecular architectures[2,3] realising parallel channels in order to process parallels signals. On the other hands, molecular materials seems to have the right sizes for some applications inside the field of quantum electronics[4].
Therefore, metalloproteins become interesting molecules as well as their properties of electron transport.
Moreover, the possibility to organise some electronics net based on molecules having properties of electronics transport depends upon the possibility to know their structures in order to optimise the architectures its-self.
For this reasons, the aims of this work is to study by molecular modelling the three-dimensional structures of the P450 2B4 by homology with the well knows structure of the P450 scc[5].
References
[1] C.Nicolini, M.Adami, F.Antolini, F. Beltram, M.Sartore, S.Vakula: Physics World, 5, 30 (1992).
[2] A.Al-Mohamad, C.W.Smith, I.S.Al-Saffar, M.A.Slifkin: Thin Solid Films, 189, 175 (1990).
[3] C.L.Gupta, Amita Gupta, T.R.Parashar, V.K.Jain: Thin Solid Films, 230, 45 (1993).
[4] I.R.Paterson, in "Nanostructures Based on Molecular Materials" edited by W.Göpel, Ch. Ziegler, VCH, Weinheim, 1992, pag. 195.
[5] Vijayakumar S., Salerno J.C., Biochim.Biophys.Acta 1160:281-286(1992.)