Laccase

Introduction

Laccases are blue multicopper oxidases (EC 1.10.3.2) and widely distributed in higher plants, bacteria, fungi, and insects.[1] [2] [3] Some of them have been used in the textile and paper industries as ‘green’ catalysts, because they just require oxygen to catalyze single-electron oxidation of the substrates, and generate only water as by-product.[ ^4,5 ] Laccases perform transformations ranging from the oxidation of functional groups to heteromolecular couplings for productions (Scheme [1]).[ ⁶ ]

Scheme 1 Principal oxidation reactions by laccase

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