Abstract
The H64D/V68A and H64D/V68S mutants of Myoglobin are found to oxidize thioanisole with high enantioselectivity and reactivity. These mutants are also capable of enantioselective binding of α-methylbenzylamine, which mimics an expected sulfoxidation intermediate. The kinetic study of the amine binding shows that the Fe-O bond cleavage in the intermediate may be the chiral discrimination step of the sulfoxidation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 8506-8507 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue number | 29 |
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| State | Published - 24 Jul 2002 |