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SUBMITTER: Mak PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3985783 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mak Piotr J PJ Luthra Abhinav A Sligar Stephen G SG Kincaid James R JR
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20140325 13
CYP19A1, or aromatase, a cytochrome P450 responsible for estrogen biosynthesis in humans, is an important therapeutic target for the treatment of breast cancer. There is still controversy surrounding the identity of reaction intermediate that catalyzes carbon-carbon scission in this key enzyme. Probing the oxy-complexes of CYP19A1 poised for hydroxylase and lyase chemistries using resonance Raman spectroscopy and drawing a comparison with CYP17A1, we have found no significant difference in the f ...[more]