multicopper

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ copper.

Adjective

multicopper (not comparable)

1. Applied to a class of oxidase enzymes that oxidize their substrate by accepting electrons at a mononuclear copper centre and transferring them to a trinuclear copper centre.
   • 2015 January 16, Gaurav Singh Kaira, Kusum Dhakar, Anita Pandey, “A psychrotolerant strain of Serratia marcescens (MTCC 4822) produces laccase at wide temperature and pH range”, in AMB Express‎, volume 5, →DOI:

     Laccases (benzenediol: oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.10.3.2) are multicopper oxidases that catalyze oxidation of an extensive array of recalcitrant phenolic and nonphenolic compounds with simultaneous reduction of molecular oxygen to water (Rivera-Hoyos et al. 2013).