サイトクロームP450の酸素経済:脱水酸化酵素-酸化酵素としての混合機能は,通常の機能と比較して,どのような起源がありますか?

Devesh Kumar1, Samuël P De Visser, Sason Shaik

  • 1Department of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

まとめ

酵素は酸化や脱水酸化として作用する. この研究は,混合酸化酵素-脱水酸化酵素の活性が,カチオンの中間物質から発生し,特定の阻害を必要とすることを明らかにし,酵素機構の洞察を提供します.

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