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European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Caption: The film shows how the lysine amino acid (yellow part of the protein) grabs a water molecule (in blue) and imports it into the enzyme to perform the catalytic reaction on the superoxide (in red).
Credit: Gergely Katona
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