The basicity of an active-site water molecule discriminates between tyrosinase and catechol oxidase activity.
Matoba, Y., Oda, K., Muraki, Y., Masuda, T.(2021) Int J Biol Macromol 183: 1861-1870
- PubMed: 34089758 
- DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.05.206
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
7CIT, 7CIY - PubMed Abstract: 
Tyrosinase (Ty) and catechol oxidase (CO) are members of type-3 copper enzymes. While Ty catalyzes both phenolase and catecholase reactions, CO catalyzes only the latter reaction. In the present study, Ty was found to catalyze the catecholase reaction, but hardly the phenolase reaction in the presence of the metallochaperon called "caddie protein (Cad)" ...