Tyrosinase versus Catechol Oxidase: One Asparagine Makes the Difference

The Structure of a Plant Tyrosinase from Walnut Leaves Reveals the Importance of “Substrate-Guiding Residues” for Enzymatic Specificity

(2015) Aleksandar Bijelic et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Dandelion PPO-1/PPO-2 domain-swaps: The C-terminal domain modulates the pH optimum and the linker affects SDS-mediated activation and stability

(2015) Christine M. Leufken et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS

Polyphenoloxidase from Riesling and Dornfelder wine grapes (Vitis vinifera) is a tyrosinase

(2015) Petra Fronk et al.   FOOD CHEMISTRY

A Biomimetic Mechanism for the Copper-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxygenation of 4-tert-Butylphenol

(2015) Mohammad S. Askari et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Polyphenol oxidase in leaves: is there any significance to the chloroplastic localization?

(2015) Tinne Boeckx et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Structural insights into the interaction between molluscan hemocyanins and phenolic substrates: An in silico study using docking and molecular dynamics

(2015) K.N. Naresh et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR GRAPHICS & MODELLING

Structure-function correlations in tyrosinases

(2015) Margarita Kanteev et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

The dark side of sunlight and melanoma

(2015) J.-S. Taylor   SCIENCE

A Biomimetic Catalytic Aerobic Functionalization of Phenols

(2014) Kenneth Virgel N. Esguerra et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

New catalytic model systems of tyrosinase: fine tuning of the reactivity with pyrazole-based N-donor ligands

(2014) Jessica Nadine Hamann et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Diverse immune functions of hemocyanins

(2014) Christopher J. Coates et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Biomimetic Hydroxylation Catalysis Through Self-Assembly of a Bis(pyrazolyl)methane Copper-Peroxo Complex

(2014) Claudia Wilfer et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Purification and characterization of tyrosinase from walnut leaves (Juglans regia)

(2014) Florime Zekiri et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Structural Diversity in the Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) Polyphenol Oxidase Family Results in Different Responses to Model Substrates

(2014) Mareike E. Dirks-Hofmeister et al.   PLoS One

Shedding light on skin color

(2014) A. Gibbons   SCIENCE

Determination of tyrosinase substrate-binding modes reveals mechanistic differences between type-3 copper proteins

(2014) Mor Goldfeder et al.   Nature Communications

The crystal structure of an extracellular catechol oxidase from the ascomycete fungus Aspergillus oryzae

(2013) Nina Hakulinen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Parameters That Enhance the Bacterial Expression of Active Plant Polyphenol Oxidases

(2013) Mareike E. Dirks-Hofmeister et al.   PLoS One

Crystal Structure ofAgaricus bisporusMushroom Tyrosinase: Identity of the Tetramer Subunits and Interaction with Tropolone

(2011) Wangsa T. Ismaya et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Copper–O2 reactivity of tyrosinase models towards external monophenolic substrates: molecular mechanism and comparison with the enzyme

(2011) Malte Rolff et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Bacterial tyrosinases: old enzymes with new relevance to biotechnology

(2011) Michael Fairhead et al.   New Biotechnology

Cloning, Sequencing, Purification, and Crystal Structure of Grenache (Vitis vinifera) Polyphenol Oxidase

(2009) Victoria M. Virador et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

New insights into the active site structure and catalytic mechanism of tyrosinase and its related proteins

(2009) Concepcion Olivares et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research