Introduction of a CuA site into the blue copper protein amicyanin from Thiobacillus versutus

The C‐terminal loop of the blue copper protein amicyanin, which contains three of the four active site ligands, has been replaced with a CuA binding loop. The purple protein produced has visible and EPR spectra identical to those of a CuA centre. Recent evidence strongly suggests that the CuA centre of cytochrome c oxidase and the A centre of nitrous oxide reductase are similar and are both binuclear. It therefore follows that the purple amicyanin mutant created here also possesses a binuclear CuA centre.

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