Structural insights into dioxygen-activating copper enzymes

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 729-735

  Rosenzweig, Amy C ^a   Sazinsky, Matthew H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBATE OXIDASE; CERULOPLASMIN; COPPER; DIOXYGEN ACTIVATING COPPER ENZYME; ENZYME; LACCASE; METALLOOXIDASE; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OXYGEN; PEPTIDYLGLYCINE ALPHA HYDROXYLATING MONOOXYGENASE; PHENOXAZINONE SYNTHASE; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; SYNTHETASE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

CHEMICAL REACTION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CATECHOL OXIDASE; COPPER; ENZYMES; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; OXYGEN; OXYGENASES;

EID: 34547778115     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2006.09.005     Document Type: Review

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