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. 2020 May 15;3:62. doi: 10.1038/s42004-020-0305-2

Fig. 1. Activities of tyrosinases.

Fig. 1

Tyrosinases catalyse reactions from monophenols to o-quinones through monophenolase (a) and diphenolase (b) activity. Incubation of the commercial tyrosinase from A. bisporus (AbT) with the carboxylesterase EstA led to a cleavage of the latter into a big (ΔEstA) and a small subunit (c). EstA was cleaved at a specific site between Ser71 and Ile72. The 71 amino acids cleaved off form an α-helix and a loop on the surface of EstA (PDB 5AH1) (released N-terminal part in red; ΔEstA in blue, cleavage site in orange, catalytic triad of the active site in yellow sticks) (d).