A taste of copper.
New structures of copper containing proteins with cupredoxin-like folds confirm earlier predictions, and reveal electron-transfer routes in cytochrome oxidase, while a new fold for amine-oxidase reveals a new use for copper in forming self-derived quino-cofactor.
Adman
E T
ET
Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7420, USA.
D001400:Azurin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000737:chemistry; D003300:Copper / Q000737:chemistry*; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000737:chemistry; D008667:Metalloproteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
D008667:Metalloproteins; C050107:cupredoxin; D001400:Azurin; D003300:Copper; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV