Synchrotron Radiation Provides a Plausible Explanation for the Generation of a Free Radical Adduct of Thioxolone in Mutant Carbonic Anhydrase II.
Sippel, K.H., Genis, C., Govindasamy, L., Agbandje-McKenna, M., Kiddle, J.J., Tripp, B.C., McKenna, R.(2010) J Phys Chem Lett 1: 2898-2902
- PubMed: 20976122 
- DOI: 10.1021/jz100954h
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4FIK - PubMed Abstract: 
Thioxolone acts as a prodrug in the presence of carbonic anhydrase II (CA II), whereby the molecule is cleaved by thioester hydrolysis to the carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, 4-mercaptobenzene-1,3-diol (TH0). Thioxolone was soaked into the proton transfer mutant H64A of CA II in an effort to capture a reaction intermediate via X-ray crystallography ...