Activation of dioxygen by copper metalloproteins and insights from model complexes

Tyrosinase versus Catechol Oxidase: One Asparagine Makes the Difference

(2016) Even Solem et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Oxidation Reactions with Bioinspired Mononuclear Non-Heme Metal-Oxo Complexes

(2016) Xenia Engelmann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Substrate-Induced Carbon Monoxide Reactivity Suggests Multiple Enzyme Conformations at the Catalytic Copper M-Center of Peptidylglycine Monooxygenase

(2016) Chelsey D. Kline et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Controlling Dicopper Protein Functions

(2016) Nobutaka Fujieda et al.   BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Metal organic frameworks mimicking natural enzymes: a structural and functional analogy

(2016) Ipsita Nath et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

On the catalytic mechanisms of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases

(2016) Paul H Walton et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Electron transfer mechanism of catalytic superoxide dismutation via Cu(ii/i) complexes: evidence of cupric–superoxo/–hydroperoxo species

(2016) Ram Chandra Maji et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Effect of Geometrical Distortion on the Electronic Structure: Synthesis and Characterization of Monoradical-Coordinated Mononuclear Cu(II) Complexes

(2016) Samir Ghorai et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Using Biosynthetic Models of Heme-Copper Oxidase and Nitric Oxide Reductase in Myoglobin to Elucidate Structural Features Responsible for Enzymatic Activities

(2016) Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran et al.   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Copper(I)-Dioxygen Adducts and Copper Enzyme Mechanisms

(2016) Jeffrey J. Liu et al.   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

The Mg2+-containing Water Cluster of Mammalian CytochromecOxidase Collects Four Pumping Proton Equivalents in Each Catalytic Cycle

(2016) Naomine Yano et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Direct Copper(III) Formation from O2 and Copper(I) with Histamine Ligation

(2016) J. Brannon Gary et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechanism for Six-Electron Aryl-N-Oxygenation by the Non-Heme Diiron Enzyme CmlI

(2016) Anna J. Komor et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Spectroscopic and Crystallographic Evidence for the Role of a Water-Containing H-Bond Network in Oxidase Activity of an Engineered Myoglobin

(2016) Igor D. Petrik et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Structure of the Reduced Copper Active Site in Preprocessed Galactose Oxidase: Ligand Tuning for One-Electron O2 Activation in Cofactor Biogenesis

(2016) Ryan E. Cowley et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Methane-Oxidizing Enzymes: An Upstream Problem in Biological Gas-to-Liquids Conversion

(2016) Thomas J. Lawton et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Peroxo and Superoxo Moieties Bound to Copper Ion: Electron-Transfer Equilibrium with a Small Reorganization Energy

(2016) Rui Cao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Activation of Dioxygen by Iron and Manganese Complexes: A Heme and Nonheme Perspective

(2016) Sumit Sahu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The molecular basis of polysaccharide cleavage by lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases

(2016) Kristian E H Frandsen et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Why copper is preferred over iron for oxygen activation and reduction in haem-copper oxidases

(2016) Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran et al.   Nature Chemistry

The crystal structure of human dopamine  -hydroxylase at 2.9 A resolution

(2016) T. V. Vendelboe et al.   Science Advances

[CuO]+ and [CuOH]2+ Complexes: Intermediates in Oxidation Catalysis?

(2015) Nicole Gagnon et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Low Temperature Syntheses and Reactivity of Cu2O2 Active-Site Models

(2015) Cooper Citek et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Developing Mononuclear Copper–Active-Oxygen Complexes Relevant to Reactive Intermediates of Biological Oxidation Reactions

(2015) Shinobu Itoh   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Copper-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidations of Organic Molecules: Pathways for Two-Electron Oxidation with a Four-Electron Oxidant and a One-Electron Redox-Active Catalyst

(2015) Scott D. McCann et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Cellulose Degradation by Polysaccharide Monooxygenases

(2015) William T. Beeson et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Enzymatic Oxidation of Methane

(2015) Sarah Sirajuddin et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Reaction Mechanism of Cytochrome c Oxidase

(2015) Shinya Yoshikawa et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

The framework of polysaccharide monooxygenase structure and chemistry

(2015) Elise A Span et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Catalytic dioxygenation of flavonol by MII-complexes (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn) – mimicking the MII-substituted quercetin 2,3-dioxygenase

(2015) Ying-Ji Sun et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Copper coordinated ligand thioether-S and NO2− oxidation: relevance to the CuM site of hydroxylases

(2015) Ram Chandra Maji et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Computational Study of Catalytic Reaction of Quercetin 2,4-Dioxygenase

(2015) Toru Saito et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Perturbing the Copper(III)–Hydroxide Unit through Ligand Structural Variation

(2015) Debanjan Dhar et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

An Unusual Peroxo Intermediate of the Arylamine Oxygenase of the Chloramphenicol Biosynthetic Pathway

(2015) Thomas M. Makris et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Hydrogen Atom Abstraction from Hydrocarbons by a Copper(III)-Hydroxide Complex

(2015) Debanjan Dhar et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Laser-Induced Dynamics of Peroxodicopper(II) Complexes Vary with the Ligand Architecture. One-Photon Two-Electron O2 Ejection and Formation of Mixed-Valent CuICuII–Superoxide Intermediates

(2015) Claudio Saracini et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A “Naked” FeIII-(O22–)-CuII Species Allows for Structural and Spectroscopic Tuning of Low-Spin Heme-Peroxo-Cu Complexes

(2015) Isaac Garcia-Bosch et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Chemical Plausibility of Cu(III) with Biological Ligation in pMMO

(2015) Cooper Citek et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Electrocatalytic O2-Reduction by Synthetic Cytochrome c Oxidase Mimics: Identification of a “Bridging Peroxo” Intermediate Involved in Facile 4e–/4H+ O2-Reduction

(2015) Sudipta Chatterjee et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A N3S(thioether)-Ligated CuII-Superoxo with Enhanced Reactivity

(2015) Sunghee Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Structure-function correlations in tyrosinases

(2015) Margarita Kanteev et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Standard electrode potentials involving radicals in aqueous solution: inorganic radicals (IUPAC Technical Report)

(2015) David A. Armstrong et al.   PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY

Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases in Biomass Conversion

(2015) Glyn R. Hemsworth et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

A Ferromagnetically Coupled (S=1) Peroxodicopper(II) Complex

(2014) Nicole Kindermann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Human copper-dependent amine oxidases

(2014) Joel Finney et al.   ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS

Superoxide Dismutases and Superoxide Reductases

(2014) Yuewei Sheng et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Copper Active Sites in Biology

(2014) Edward I. Solomon et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

A copper complex supported by an N2S-tridentate ligand inducing efficient heterolytic O–O bond cleavage of alkylhydroperoxide

(2014) Tetsuro Tano et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

BOX Ligands in Biomimetic Copper-Mediated Dioxygen Activation: A Hemocyanin Model

(2014) Adam Walli et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Rapid reaction of superoxide with insulin-tyrosyl radicals to generate a hydroperoxide with subsequent glutathione addition

(2014) Andrew B. Das et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Modeling Biological Copper Clusters: Synthesis of a Tricopper Complex, and Its Chloride- and Sulfide-Bridged Congeners

(2014) Gianna N. Di Francesco et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Excitation Wavelength Dependent O2 Release from Copper(II)–Superoxide Compounds: Laser Flash-Photolysis Experiments and Theoretical Studies

(2014) Claudio Saracini et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Primary Amine Stabilization of a Dicopper(III) Bis(μ-oxo) Species: Modeling the Ligation in pMMO

(2014) Cooper Citek et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Isolation of a (Dinitrogen)Tricopper(I) Complex

(2014) Leslie J. Murray et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechanistic Insights into the Oxidation of Substituted Phenols via Hydrogen Atom Abstraction by a Cupric–Superoxo Complex

(2014) Jung Yoon Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Status of Reactive Non-Heme Metal–Oxygen Intermediates in Chemical and Enzymatic Reactions

(2014) Kallol Ray et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2014) Mor Goldfeder et al.   Nature Communications

Unusual post-translational protein modifications: the benefits of sophistication

(2014) Boddepalli Ravikiran et al.   RSC Advances

Intrigues and Intricacies of the Biosynthetic Pathways for the Enzymatic Quinocofactors: PQQ, TTQ, CTQ, TPQ, and LTQ

(2013) Judith P. Klinman et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Cysteine-Mediated Redox Signaling: Chemistry, Biology, and Tools for Discovery

(2013) Candice E. Paulsen et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Flavonolate Complexes of MII(M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn). Structural and Functional Models for the ES (Enzyme–Substrate) Complex of Quercetin 2,3-Dioxygenase

(2013) Ying-Ji Sun et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Crystal Structures of Copper-depleted and Copper-bound Fungal Pro-tyrosinase

(2013) Nobutaka Fujieda et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Structural and functional comparison of manganese-, iron-, cobalt-, nickel-, and copper-containing biomimic quercetinase models

(2013) Andrea Matuz et al.   POLYHEDRON

Quantum mechanical calculations suggest that lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases use a copper-oxyl, oxygen-rebound mechanism

(2013) S. Kim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Overcoming the “Oxidant Problem”: Strategies to Use O2 as the Oxidant in Organometallic C–H Oxidation Reactions Catalyzed by Pd (and Cu)

(2012) Alison N. Campbell et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

The role of Asp116 in the reductive cleavage of dioxygen to water in CotA laccase: assistance during the proton-transfer mechanism

(2012) Catarina S. Silva et al.   ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Significant Increase of Oxidase Activity through the Genetic Incorporation of a Tyrosine-Histidine Cross-Link in a Myoglobin Model of Heme-Copper Oxidase

(2012) Xiaohong Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Designed Functional Metalloenzyme that Reduces O2 to H2O with Over One Thousand Turnovers

(2012) Kyle D. Miner et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Recent advances in phenoxyl radical complexes of salen-type ligands as mixed-valent galactose oxidase models

(2012) Christopher T. Lyons et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Cofactor biosynthesis through protein post-translational modification

(2012) Erik T Yukl et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Cu(I)/O2 Chemistry Using a β-Diketiminate Supporting Ligand Derived from N,N-Dimethylhydrazine: A [Cu3O2]3+ Complex with Novel Reactivity

(2012) Aalo K. Gupta et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Active Site Models for the CuA Site of Peptidylglycine α-Hydroxylating Monooxygenase and Dopamine β-Monooxygenase

(2012) Atsushi Kunishita et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Conjugation of Glutathione to Oxidized Tyrosine Residues in Peptides and Proteins

(2012) Peter Nagy et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Activation mechanism of melB tyrosinase from Aspergillus oryzae by acidic treatment

(2012) Nobutaka Fujieda et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Experimental and Computational Evidence of Metal-O2 Activation and Rate-Limiting Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in a Copper Amine Oxidase

(2012) Yi Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Geometric and Electronic Structure of [{Cu(MeAN)}2(μ-η2:η2(O22–))]2+ with an Unusually Long O–O Bond: O–O Bond Weakening vs Activation for Reductive Cleavage

(2012) Ga Young Park et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Structure/function correlations among coupled binuclear copper proteins through spectroscopic and reactivity studies of NspF

(2012) J. W. Ginsbach et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structural Basis for Substrate Targeting and Catalysis by Fungal Polysaccharide Monooxygenases

(2012) Xin Li et al.   STRUCTURE

Metal-templated ligand architectures for trinuclear chemistry: tricopper complexes and their O2reactivity

(2012) Davide Lionetti et al.   Chemical Science

Cellobiose Dehydrogenase and a Copper-Dependent Polysaccharide Monooxygenase Potentiate Cellulose Degradation byNeurospora crassa

(2011) Christopher M. Phillips et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

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

(2011) Wangsa T. Ismaya et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Reactions of Copper(II)-Phenol Systems with O2: Models for TPQ Biosynthesis in Copper Amine Oxidases

(2011) Kae Tabuchi et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Post-Translational His-Cys Cross-Linkage Formation in Tyrosinase Induced by Copper(II)−Peroxo Species

(2011) Nobutaka Fujieda et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Rapid C–H Bond Activation by a Monocopper(III)–Hydroxide Complex

(2011) Patrick J. Donoghue et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Cupric Superoxo-Mediated Intermolecular C−H Activation Chemistry

(2011) Ryan L. Peterson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mutation at a Strictly Conserved, Active Site Tyrosine in the Copper Amine Oxidase Leads to Uncontrolled Oxygenase Activity

(2010) Zhi-wei Chen et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Directed evolution of tyrosinase for enhanced monophenolase/diphenolase activity ratio

(2010) Vered Shuster Ben-Yosef et al.   ENZYME AND MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY

Copper dioxygen (bio)inorganic chemistry

(2010) Edward I. Solomon et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Reactions of superoxide with the myoglobin tyrosyl radical

(2010) Andrew B. Das et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Heme−Copper−Dioxygen Complexes: Toward Understanding Ligand-Environmental Effects on the Coordination Geometry, Electronic Structure, and Reactivity

(2010) Zakaria Halime et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Oxygen Activation with Transition-Metal Complexes in Aqueous Solution

(2010) Andreja Bakac   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

First Structures of an Active Bacterial Tyrosinase Reveal Copper Plasticity

(2010) Mor Sendovski et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Systematic Perturbation of the Trinuclear Copper Cluster in the Multicopper Oxidases: The Role of Active Site Asymmetry in Its Reduction of O2to H2O

(2010) Anthony J. Augustine et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Oxidation of methane by a biological dicopper centre

(2010) Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian et al.   NATURE

A copper-containing oxidase catalyzes C-nitrosation in nitrosobenzamide biosynthesis

(2010) Akio Noguchi et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Thioether S-ligation in a side-on μ-η2:η2-peroxodicopper(ii) complex

(2009) Ga Young Park et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

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

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

Superoxide-mediated Formation of Tyrosine Hydroperoxides and Methionine Sulfoxide in Peptides through Radical Addition and Intramolecular Oxygen Transfer

(2009) Péter Nagy et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Mononuclear Copper(II)−Superoxo Complexes that Mimic the Structure and Reactivity of the Active Centers of PHM and DβM

(2009) Atsushi Kunishita et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Crystal structure of Manduca sexta prophenoloxidase provides insights into the mechanism of type 3 copper enzymes

(2009) Y. Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Monooxygenase Activity ofOctopus vulgarisHemocyanin†

(2008) Kenji Suzuki et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Quercetinase QueD ofStreptomycessp. FLA, a Monocupin Dioxygenase with a Preference for Nickel and Cobalt†

(2008) Hedda Merkens et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Kinetics and Spectroscopic Evidence That the Cu(I)−Semiquinone Intermediate Reduces Molecular Oxygen in the Oxidative Half-Reaction ofArthrobacter globiformisAmine Oxidase†

(2008) Eric M. Shepard et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Cross-Link Formation of the Cysteine 228−Tyrosine 272 Catalytic Cofactor of Galactose Oxidase Does Not Require Dioxygen†‡

(2008) Melanie S. Rogers et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

The Metal Centers of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase fromMethylosinus trichosporiumOB3b†‡

(2008) Amanda S. Hakemian et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Functional biomimetic models for the active site in the respiratory enzyme cytochrome c oxidase

(2008) James P. Collman et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Enzymes as Working or Inspirational Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells and Electrolysis

(2008) James A. Cracknell et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Structural and functional mimic of galactose oxidase by a copper complex of a sterically demanding [N2O2] ligand

(2008) Alex John et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

O2 Reduction to H2O by the multicopper oxidases

(2008) Edward I. Solomon et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Switch between tyrosinase and catecholoxidase activity of scorpion hemocyanin by allosteric effectors

(2008) Dorothea Nillius et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Imidazole Substituent Effects on Oxidative Reactivity of Tripodal(imid)2(thioether)CuIComplexes

(2008) Lei Zhou et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Spectroscopic and Electronic Structure Studies of Phenolate Cu(II) Complexes: Phenolate Ring Orientation and Activation Related to Cofactor Biogenesis

(2008) Somdatta Ghosh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY