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SUBMITTER: Orville AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2646362 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Orville Allen M AM Lountos George T GT Finnegan Steffan S Gadda Giovanni G Prabhakar Rajeev R
Biochemistry 20090201 4
Flavin C4a-OO(H) and C4a-OH adducts are critical intermediates proposed in many flavoenzyme reaction mechanisms, but they are rarely detected even by rapid transient kinetics methods. We observe a trapped flavin C4a-OH or C4a-OO(H) adduct by single-crystal spectroscopic methods and in the 1.86 A resolution X-ray crystal structure of choline oxidase. The microspectrophotometry results show that the adduct forms rapidly in situ at 100 K upon exposure to X-rays. Density functional theory calculatio ...[more]