90 years of monoamine oxidase: some progress and some confusion

KF Tipton - Journal of Neural Transmission, 2018 - Springer
It would not be practical to attempt to deal with all the advances that have informed our
understanding of the behavior and functions of this enzyme over the past 90 years. This …

Monoamine oxidase‐B inhibitors as potential neurotherapeutic agents: An overview and update

RKP Tripathi, SR Ayyannan - Medicinal research reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors have made significant contributions and remain an
indispensable approach of molecular and mechanistic diversity for the discovery of …

Monoamine oxidase: tunable activity for amine resolution and functionalization

VF Batista, JL Galman, DC GA Pinto, AMS Silva… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Monoamine oxidases (MAO) are biocatalysts for the oxidation of a wide range of different
amines including α-chiral amines. Their high selectivity and activity, along with the …

How monoamine oxidase A decomposes serotonin: an empirical valence bond simulation of the reactive step

A Prah, M Purg, J Stare, R Vianello… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The enzyme-catalyzed degradation of the biogenic amine serotonin is an essential
regulatory mechanism of its level in the human organism. In particular, monoamine oxidase …

Kinetics, mechanism, and inhibition of monoamine oxidase

RR Ramsay, A Albreht - Journal of Neural Transmission, 2018 - Springer
Monoamine oxidases (MAOs) catalyse the oxidation of neurotransmitter amines and a wide
variety of primary, secondary and tertiary amine xenobiotics, including therapeutic drugs …

Catalytic amine oxidation under ambient aerobic conditions: mimicry of monoamine oxidase B

AT Murray, MJH Dowley… - Angewandte …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The flavoenzyme monoamine oxidase (MAO) regulates mammalian behavioral patterns by
modulating neurotransmitters such as adrenaline and serotonin. The mechanistic basis …

Empirical valence bond simulations of the hydride transfer step in the monoamine oxidase B catalyzed metabolism of dopamine

M Repič, R Vianello, M Purg, F Duarte… - Proteins: Structure …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Monoamine oxidases (MAOs) A and B are flavoenzymes responsible for the metabolism of
biogenic amines such as dopamine, serotonin and noradrenaline. In this work, we present a …

Examining Electrostatic Preorganization in Monoamine Oxidases A and B by Structural Comparison and pKa Calculations

M Repič, M Purg, R Vianello… - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Monoamine oxidases (MAO) A and B are important flavoenzymes involved in the
metabolism of amine neurotransmitters. Orru et al.(J. Neural Transm. 2013, 120, 847− 851) …

Revealing monoamine oxidase B catalytic mechanisms by means of the quantum chemical cluster approach

G Zapata-Torres, A Fierro… - Journal of Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Two of the possible catalytic mechanisms for neurotransmitter oxidative deamination by
monoamine oxidase B (MAO B), namely, polar nucleophilic and hydride transfer, were …

The use of multiscale molecular simulations in understanding a relationship between the structure and function of biological systems of the brain: the application to …

R Vianello, C Domene, J Mavri - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
HIGHLIGHTS Computational techniques provide accurate descriptions of the structure and
dynamics of biological systems, contributing to their understanding at an atomic level …