Copper active sites in biology

EI Solomon, DE Heppner, EM Johnston… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
On the basis of its generally accessible I/II redox couple and bioavailability, copper plays a
wide variety of roles in nature that mostly involve electron transfer (ET), O 2 binding …

Structural and functional aspects of metal sites in biology

RH Holm, P Kennepohl, EI Solomon - Chemical reviews, 1996 - ACS Publications
The field of bioinorganic chemistry is at a propitious stage of development. Ever more
complex metallobiomolecules are isolated and purified, physical methodologies and …

CH–π hydrogen bonds in biological macromolecules

M Nishio, Y Umezawa, J Fantini, MS Weiss… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This is a sequel to the previous Perspective “The CH–π hydrogen bond in chemistry.
Conformation, supramolecules, optical resolution and interactions involving carbohydrates” …

Protein Radicals in Enzyme Catalysis. [Chem. Rev. 1998, 98, 705−762

JA Stubbe, WA van Der Donk - Chemical reviews, 1998 - ACS Publications
Protein Radicals in Enzyme Catalysis. [Chem. Rev. 1998, 98, 705−762 | Chemical Reviews ACS
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Activation of dioxygen by copper metalloproteins and insights from model complexes

DA Quist, DE Diaz, JJ Liu, KD Karlin - JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic …, 2017 - Springer
Nature uses dioxygen as a key oxidant in the transformation of biomolecules. Among the
enzymes that are utilized for these reactions are copper-containing metalloenzymes, which …

Structure and function of enzymes of the Leloir pathway for galactose metabolism

HM Holden, I Rayment, JB Thoden - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2003 - ASBMB
In most organisms, the conversion of-D-galactose to the more metabolically useful glucose 1-
phosphate is accomplished by the action of four enzymes that constitute the Leloir pathway …

Mechanisms whereby mononuclear copper proteins functionalize organic substrates

JP Klinman - Chemical reviews, 1996 - ACS Publications
Although the number of proteins that utilize copper as an essential cofactor is not
exceptionally large, the roles played by many of these proteins appear central to the success …

Biodegradation of Aromatic Compounds byEscherichia coli

E Dı́az, A Ferrández, MA Prieto… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although Escherichia coli has long been recognized as the best-understood living organism,
little was known about its abilities to use aromatic compounds as sole carbon and energy …

A crosslinked cofactor in lysyl oxidase: redox function for amino acid side chains

SX Wang, M Mure, KF Medzihradszky, AL Burlingame… - Science, 1996 - science.org
A previously unknown redox cofactor has been identified in the active site of lysyl oxidase
from the bovine aorta. Edman sequencing, mass spectrometry, ultraviolet-visible spectra …

How coenzyme B12 radicals are generated: the crystal structure of methylmalonyl-coenzyme A mutase at 2 Å resolution

F Mancia, NH Keep, A Nakagawa, PF Leadlay… - Structure, 1996 - cell.com
Background: The enzyme methylmalonyl-coenzyme A (CoA) mutase, an αβ heterodimer of
150 kDa, is a member of a class of enzymes that uses coenzyme B 12 (adenosylcobalamin) …