Paramagnetic centers in biomolecules, such as specific metal ions that are bound to a
protein, affect the nuclei in their surrounding in various ways. One of these effects is the …

Copper is widely used in nature to promote electron transfer in a variety of processes. The
metal is usually found as a mononuclear type 1 copper site protected by a protein envelope …

Bacterial methane oxidation using the enzyme particulate methane monooxygenase
(pMMO) contributes to the removal of environmental methane, a potent greenhouse gas …

Umecyanin (UMC) is a type 1 copper-containing protein which originates from horseradish
roots and belongs to the stellacyanin subclass of the phytocyanins, a ubiquitous family of …

Copper is vitally required for plants at low concentrations but extremely toxic for plants at
elevated concentrations. Plants have evolved a series of mechanisms to prevent the …

The ligand field molecular mechanics (LFMM) model has been applied to the oxidized Type
1 copper center. In conjunction with the AMBER94 force field implemented in DommiMOE …

We have applied femtosecond pump− probe spectroscopy to investigate the excited-state
dynamics of umecyanin from horseradish roots, by exciting its 600-nm ligand-to-metal …

Abstract The Ni (II) and Zn (II) derivatives of Desulfovibrio vulgaris rubredoxin (DvRd) have
been studied by NMR spectroscopy to probe the structure at the metal centre. The βCH 2 …

Type 1 (T1) copper sites promote biological electron transfer (ET) and typically possess a
weakly coordinated thioether sulfur from an axial Met [Cu (II)− Sδ∼ 2.6 to 3.3 Å] along with …

For many streptomycetes, a distinct dependence on the “bioavailability” of copper ions for
their morphological development has been reported. Analysis of the Streptomyces coelicolor …