The thin line between monooxygenases and peroxygenases. P450s, UPOs, MMOs, and LPMOs: A brick to bridge fields of expertise

D Decembrino, D Cannella - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
Many scientific fields, although driven by similar purposes and dealing with similar
technologies, often appear so isolated and far from each other that even the vocabularies to …

The disordered C-terminal tail of fungal LPMOs from phytopathogens mediates protein dimerization and impacts plant penetration

KC Tamburrini, S Kodama, S Grisel… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are monocopper enzymes that oxidatively
degrade various polysaccharides, such as cellulose. Despite extensive research on this …

Exploring roles of the chitinase ChiC in modulating Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence phenotypes

PKT Edvardsen, F Askarian, R Zurich… - Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Chitinases are ubiquitous enzymes involved in biomass degradation and chitin turnover in
nature. Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA), an opportunistic human pathogen, expresses ChiC …

[HTML][HTML] Active roles of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases in human pathogenicity

D Kracher, T Lanzmaier, LV Carneiro - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are redox enzymes widely studied for their
involvement in microbial and fungal biomass degradation. The catalytic versatility of these …

[PDF][PDF] Structural dissection of two redox proteins from the shipworm symbiont Teredinibacter turnerae

BS Rajagopal, N Yates, J Smith, A Paradisi… - IUCrJ, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
The discovery of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs), a family of copper-
dependent enzymes that play a major role in polysaccharide degradation, has revealed the …

Calcium binding site in AA10 LPMO from Vibrio cholerae suggests modulating effects during environment survival and infection

M Montserrat-Canals, K Bjerregaard-Andersen… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Despite major efforts towards its eradication, cholera remains a major health and economic
burden in many developing countries. Between outbreaks, the bacterium responsible for the …