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SUBMITTER: Geng J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4363735 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Geng Jiafeng J Davis Ian I Liu Aimin A
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20150128 12
The biosynthesis of tryptophan tryptophylquinone, a protein-derived cofactor, involves a long-range reaction mediated by a bis-Fe(IV) intermediate of a diheme enzyme, MauG. Recently, a unique charge-resonance (CR) phenomenon was discovered in this intermediate, and a biological, long-distance CR model was proposed. This model suggests that the chemical nature of the bis-Fe(IV) species is not as simple as it appears; rather, it is composed of a collection of resonance structures in a dynamic equi ...[more]