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Structural basis for catalytic and inhibitory divergence between archaeal and bacterial ammonia monooxygenases
Xiaoyun Yang, Tieqiang Mao, Zhi-Cong He…·Zongqiang Li
Archaeal ammonia monooxygenase (AMO) is a cup-shaped homotrimer using a mononuclear CuD site; inhibitors bind bacterial AMO's dicopper center directly but apparently inactivate archaeal AMO indirectly by relocating copper.