multicopper

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adjective

Applied to a class of oxidase enzymes that oxidize their substrate by accepting electrons at a mononuclear copper centre and transferring them to a trinuclear copper centre.

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Meanings

adjectivemulticopper (not comparable)
  1. not comparableApplied to a class of oxidase enzymes that oxidize their substrate by accepting electrons at a mononuclear copper centre and transferring them to a trinuclear copper centre.

    Laccases (benzenediol: oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.10.3.2) are multicopper oxidases that catalyze oxidation of an extensive array of recalcitrant phenolic and nonphenolic compounds with simultaneous reduction of molecular oxygen to water (Rivera-Hoyos et al. 2013).

    2015 January 16, Gaurav Singh Kaira, Kusum Dhakar, Anita Pandey, “A psychrotolerant strain of Serratia marcescens (MTCC 4822) produces laccase at wide temperature and pH range”, in AMB Express, volume 5, →DOI

Origin

From multi- + copper.

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