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SUBMITTER: Gumiero A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3020733 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gumiero Andrea A Metcalfe Clive L CL Pearson Arwen R AR Raven Emma Lloyd EL Moody Peter C E PC
The Journal of biological chemistry 20101108 2
Heme enzymes are ubiquitous in biology and catalyze a vast array of biological redox processes. The formation of high valent ferryl intermediates of the heme iron (known as Compounds I and Compound II) is implicated for a number of catalytic heme enzymes, but these species are formed only transiently and thus have proved somewhat elusive. In consequence, there has been conflicting evidence as to the nature of these ferryl intermediates in a number of different heme enzymes, in particular the pre ...[more]