Copper-β-amyloid peptides exhibit neither monooxygenase nor superoxide dismutase activities.

Davide Ciregna, Enrico Monzani, Grégory Thiabaud, Silvia Pizzocaro, Luigi Casella

Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Pavia. Via Taramelli 12, 27100 Pavia, Italy.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 2013 May 11

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Contrary to earlier claims, the Cu(II) complex with the soluble Aβ16 peptide, and also that with Aβ28 exhibit no phenol monooxygenase (tyrosinase-like) activity; the complexes neither exhibit superoxide dismutase activity.

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Davide Ciregna, Enrico Monzani, Grégory Thiabaud, Silvia Pizzocaro, Luigi Casella. Copper-β-amyloid peptides exhibit neither monooxygenase nor superoxide dismutase activities. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England). 2013 May 11;49(38):4027-9