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A taste of copper

New structures of copper containing proteins with cupredoxin-like folds confirm earlier predictions, and reveal electron-transfer routes in cytochrome oxidase, while a new fold for amine-oxidase reveals a new use for copper in forming self-derived quino-cofactor.

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Adman, E. A taste of copper. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2, 929–931 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb1195-929

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