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SUBMITTER: Yosca TH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5640440 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yosca Timothy H TH Ledray Aaron P AP Ngo Joanna J Green Michael T MT
Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 20170116 2-3
Protonated ferryl (or iron(IV)hydroxide) intermediates have been characterized in several thiolate-ligated heme proteins that are known to catalyze C-H bond activation. The basicity of the ferryl intermediates in these species has been proposed to play a critical role in facilitating this chemistry, allowing hydrogen abstraction at reduction potentials below those that would otherwise lead to oxidative degradation of the enzyme. In this contribution, we discuss the events that led to the assignm ...[more]