Trapping of a dopaquinone intermediate in the TPQ cofactor biogenesis in a copper-containing amine oxidase from Arthrobacter globiformis.
Moore, R.H., Spies, M.A., Culpepper, M.B., Murakawa, T., Hirota, S., Okajima, T., Tanizawa, K., Mure, M.(2007) J.Am.Chem.Soc. 129: 11524-11534
- PubMed: 17715921 
- DOI: 10.1021/ja0731165
- PubMed Abstract: 
The biogenesis of the topaquinone (TPQ) cofactor of copper amine oxidase (CAO) is self-catalyzed and requires copper and molecular oxygen. A dopaquinone intermediate has been proposed to undergo 1,4-addition of a copper-associated water molecule to f ...