The Movie (IMAGE)

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

The Movie

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).

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Gergely Katona

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