Transient protein structure guides surface diffusion pathways for electron transport in membrane supercomplexes
Chun Kit Chan, Jonathan T. Nguyen, Corey F. Hryc, Chitrak Gupta, Matthew J. Guberman‐Pfeffer, Kevin Redding, William Dowhan, Matthew L. Baker, Alberto Pérez, Eugenia Mileykovskaya, Abhishek Singharoy
This study uses multiscale modeling and cryo-EM to show that transient protein structures guide electron transfer in mitochondrial supercomplexes, improving energy conversion efficiency by 30%.
Nature Communications · Feb 5, 2026Peer-reviewedBiophysics