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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2021

Considerations Regarding Activity Determinants of Fungal Polyphenol Oxidases Based on Mutational and Structural Studies.

Efstratios Nikolaivits, Alexandros Valmas, Grigorios Dedes, Evangelos Topakas, Maria Dimarogona

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Efstratios Nikolaivits *Industrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group, Biotechnology Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-8022-9272
Alexandros Valmas *Department of Biology, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Grigorios DedesIndustrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group, Biotechnology Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Evangelos TopakasIndustrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group, Biotechnology Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0078-5904
Maria DimarogonaLaboratory of Structural Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Patras, Greece mdimarog@chemeng.upatras.gr.ORCID 0000-0002-5663-1421
National Technical University of Athens · GRUniversity of Patras · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) are an industrially relevant family of enzymes, being involved in the postharvest browning of fruits and vegetables, as well as in human melanogenesis. Their involvement lies in their ability to oxidize phenolic or polyphenolic compounds, which subsequently form pigments. The PPO family includes tyrosinases and catechol oxidases, which, in spite of their high structural similarity, exhibit different catalytic activities. Long-standing research efforts have not yet managed to decipher the structural determinants responsible for this differentiation, as every new theory is disproved by a more recent study. In the present work, we combined biochemical along with structural data in order to better understand the function of a previously characterized PPO from

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Amino Acid SequenceCatechol OxidaseFungal ProteinsKineticsMutagenesis, Site-DirectedOxidation-ReductionSequence AlignmentSordarialesSubstrate SpecificityCatechol OxidaseFungal Proteinskinetic analysispolyphenol oxidaseprotein engineeringsite-directed mutagenesisThermothelomyces thermophilatyrosinaseX-ray structure

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PMID33741634
PMCPMC8208164
OpenAlexW3133839841

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