title: Catechol oxidase - structure and activity.
abstract: Recently determined structures of copper-containing plant catechol oxidase in three different catalytic states have provided new insights into the mechanism of this enzyme and its relationship to other copper type-3 proteins. Moreover, the active site of catechol oxidase has been found to be structurally conserved with the oxygen-binding site of a molluscan hemocyanin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, Texas 77843-2128, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Eicken
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Krebs
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sacchettini
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002384:Catalysis; D004156:Catechol Oxidase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D004156:Catechol Oxidase