Neutron crystallography of copper amine oxidase reveals keto/enolate interconversion of the quinone cofactor and unusual proton sharing.
Murakawa, T., Kurihara, K., Shoji, M., Shibazaki, C., Sunami, T., Tamada, T., Yano, N., Yamada, T., Kusaka, K., Suzuki, M., Shigeta, Y., Kuroki, R., Hayashi, H., Yano, T., Tanizawa, K., Adachi, M., Okajima, T.(2020) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117: 10818-10824
- PubMed: 32371483 
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1922538117
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6L9C - PubMed Abstract: 
Recent advances in neutron crystallographic studies have provided structural bases for quantum behaviors of protons observed in enzymatic reactions. Thus, we resolved the neutron crystal structure of a bacterial copper (Cu) amine oxidase (CAO), which contains a prosthetic Cu ion and a protein-derived redox cofactor, topa quinone (TPQ) ...