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Fig. 2 | Biotechnology for Biofuels

Fig. 2

From: On the functional characterization of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs)

Fig. 2

LPMO reaction schemes. The two panels show the reaction schemes for O2- and H2O2-driven LPMO activity proposed in a 2010 [3] and b 2017 [10]. The Cu(II)/Cu((I) indicated above the arrows refers to the copper ion in the active site and its oxidation state before initiation of the catalytic cycle. Note that in the O2-driven reaction, delivery of two electrons is needed for each catalytic cycle, whereas the H2O2-driven reaction only requires a “priming” reduction of the LPMO, which, once activated, can carry out multiple reactions

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