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

Synthetic Heme/Copper Assemblies: Toward an Understanding of Cytochrome c Oxidase Interactions with Dioxygen and Nitrogen Oxides

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Recent Advances in Biosynthetic Modeling of Nitric Oxide Reductases and Insights Gained from Nuclear Resonance Vibrational and Other Spectroscopic Studies

(2015) Saumen Chakraborty et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

A Designed Metalloenzyme Achieving the Catalytic Rate of a Native Enzyme

(2015) Yang Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Defining the Role of Tyrosine and Rational Tuning of Oxidase Activity by Genetic Incorporation of Unnatural Tyrosine Analogs

(2015) Yang Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A biosynthetic model of cytochrome c oxidase as an electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction

(2015) Sohini Mukherjee et al.   Nature Communications

Protein Design: Toward Functional Metalloenzymes

(2014) Fangting Yu et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Linking Chemical Electron–Proton Transfer to Proton Pumping in Cytochrome c Oxidase: Broken-Symmetry DFT Exploration of Intermediates along the Catalytic Reaction Pathway of the Iron–Copper Dinuclear Complex

(2014) Louis Noodleman et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Direct EPR Observation of a Tyrosyl Radical in a Functional Oxidase Model in Myoglobin during both H2O2 and O2 Reactions

(2014) Yang Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Systematic Tuning of Heme Redox Potentials and Its Effects on O2 Reduction Rates in a Designed Oxidase in Myoglobin

(2014) Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Short peptides self-assemble to produce catalytic amyloids

(2014) Caroline M. Rufo et al.   Nature Chemistry

Designing functional metalloproteins: From structural to catalytic metal sites

(2013) Melissa L. Zastrow et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

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(2013) F. L. Sousa et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

CO, NO and O2 as vibrational probes of heme protein interactions

(2012) Thomas G. Spiro et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

The superfamily of heme–copper oxygen reductases: Types and evolutionary considerations

(2011) Filipa L. Sousa et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Cytochrome c oxidase: Intermediates of the catalytic cycle and their energy-coupled interconversion

(2011) Alexander A. Konstantinov   FEBS LETTERS

HNO Binding in a Heme Protein: Structures, Spectroscopic Properties, and Stabilities

(2011) Liu Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Design of a switchable eliminase

(2011) I. V. Korendovych et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Cytochrome Oxidase

(2010) Ville R. I. Kaila et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Recent Applications of a Synthetic Model of CytochromecOxidase: Beyond Functional Modeling†† This award article is an extended version of the Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry, 2009, presented at the 237th American Chemical Society National Meeting at Salt Lake City, UT.

(2010) James P. Collman et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Roles of glutamates and metal ions in a rationally designed nitric oxide reductase based on myoglobin

(2010) Y.-W. Lin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mössbauer, NMR, Geometric, and Electronic Properties inS=3/2Iron Porphyrins

(2009) Yan Ling et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Rational design of a structural and functional nitric oxide reductase

(2009) Natasha Yeung et al.   NATURE

Rationally tuning the reduction potential of a single cupredoxin beyond the natural range

(2009) Nicholas M. Marshall et al.   NATURE

O2 reduction by a functional heme/nonheme bis-iron NOR model complex

(2009) J. P. Collman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cytochrome c oxidase: exciting progress and remaining mysteries

(2008) Peter Brzezinski et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOENERGETICS AND BIOMEMBRANES

NMR Hyperfine Shifts in Blue Copper Proteins:  A Quantum Chemical Investigation

(2008) Yong Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Nature of the Fe−O2Bonding in Oxy-Myoglobin: Effect of the Protein

(2008) Hui Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY