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Overview

Christopher C. Moser is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research intersects multiple fields within the life sciences and chemistry, focusing primarily on biochemical and molecular biological processes.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Neuroscience
  • Chemistry

Within these disciplines, Moser's work covers several subfields:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry

The primary topics of their research revolve around:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation

Christopher C. Moser's publication record includes contributions to diverse journals and scientific outlets, with a notable frequency of publication in:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Materials Advances

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Moser show their focus on protein design and photosynthetic mechanisms. Selected recent publications include:

  • De novo protein design of photochemical reaction centers, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Rational design of photosynthetic reaction center protein maquettes, 2022, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • Tailorable Tetrahelical Bundles as a Toolkit for Redox Studies, 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Emulating photosynthetic processes with light harvesting synthetic protein (maquette) assemblies on titanium dioxide, 2020, Materials Advances
  • De Novo Protein Design of Photochemical Reaction Centers, 2021, Research Square

Frequent collaborators in their research career include:

  • P. Leslie Dutton
  • Bohdana M. Discher
  • Nathan M. Ennist
  • Steven E. Stayrook
  • Zhenyu Zhao

Best Publications

  • Nature of biological electron transfer

    Moser Cc;Keske Jm;Warncke K;Farid Rs

  • Natural engineering principles of electron tunnelling in biological oxidation-reduction.

    Christopher C. Page;Christopher C. Moser;Xiaoxi Chen;P. Leslie Dutton

  • Comparing photosynthetic and photovoltaic efficiencies and recognizing the potential for improvement.

    Robert E. Blankenship;David M. Tiede;James Barber;James Barber;Gary W. Brudvig

  • Design and synthesis of multi-haem proteins

    D E Robertson;R S Farid;C C Moser;J L Urbauer

  • P450 BM3: the very model of a modern flavocytochrome.

    Andrew W Munro;David G Leys;Kirsty J McLean;Ker R Marshall

  • Mechanism for electron transfer within and between proteins.

    Christopher C Page;Christopher C Moser;P Leslie Dutton

  • Reversible redox energy coupling in electron transfer chains

    Artur Osyczka;Christopher C. Moser;Fevzi Daldal;P. Leslie Dutton

  • Biological electron transfer

    Christopher C. Moser;Christopher C. Page;Ramy Farid;P. Leslie Dutton

  • Design and engineering of an O 2 transport protein

    Ronald L. Koder;J. L. Ross Anderson;Lee A. Solomon;Konda S. Reddy

  • Fixing the Q cycle

    Artur Osyczka;Christopher C. Moser;P. Leslie Dutton

  • Electron tunneling chains of mitochondria.

    Christopher C. Moser;Tammer A. Farid;Sarah E. Chobot;P. Leslie Dutton

  • Engineering protein structure for electron transfer function in photosynthetic reaction centers.

    C. C. Moser;P. L. Dutton

  • Ubiquinone pair in the Qo site central to the primary energy conversion reactions of cytochrome bc1 complex.

    Huangen Ding;Christopher C. Moser;Dan E. Robertson;Mariko K. Tokito

  • The First Events in Photosynthesis: Electronic Coupling and Energy Transfer Dynamics in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides

    David C. Arnett;C. C. Moser;P. L. Dutton;N. F. Scherer

  • Uncovering the [2Fe2S] domain movement in cytochrome bc1 and its implications for energy conversion.

    Elisabeth Darrouzet;Maria Valkova-Valchanova;Christopher C. Moser;P. Leslie Dutton

  • Guidelines for tunneling in enzymes.

    Christopher C. Moser;J.L. Ross Anderson;P. Leslie Dutton

  • A reductant-induced oxidation mechanism for complex I.

    P.Leslie Dutton;Christopher C Moser;Vladimir D Sled;Fevzi Daldal

  • Large scale domain movement in cytochrome bc1: a new device for electron transfer in proteins

    Elisabeth Darrouzet;Christopher C Moser;P.Leslie Dutton;Fevzi Daldal

  • Design and engineering of photosynthetic light-harvesting and electron transfer using length, time, and energy scales.

    Dror Noy;Christopher C. Moser;P. Leslie Dutton

  • Elementary tetrahelical protein design for diverse oxidoreductase functions

    Tammer A Farid;Goutham Kodali;Lee A Solomon;Bruce R Lichtenstein;Bruce R Lichtenstein

Frequent Co-Authors

P. Leslie Dutton
P. Leslie Dutton University of Pennsylvania
Fevzi Daldal
Fevzi Daldal University of Pennsylvania
David L. Officer
David L. Officer University of Wollongong
William F. DeGrado
William F. DeGrado University of California, San Francisco
Sergei A. Vinogradov
Sergei A. Vinogradov University of Pennsylvania
Tomoko Ohnishi
Tomoko Ohnishi University of Pennsylvania
Keith C. Gordon
Keith C. Gordon University of Otago
James Barber
James Barber Imperial College London
P. J. Hore
P. J. Hore University of Oxford
Arthur J. Nozik
Arthur J. Nozik University of Colorado Boulder

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