Abstract
Superoxide dismutative copper is found widely distributed in biochemical systems (1). Only small activation energies, below 10 kJ/mol (2), are required as a result of the reactivity of the superoxide radical itself. Thus the molecular size of the employed copper complex is of minor importance. As expected, some low molecular weight copper chelates were found to exert greater superoxide dismutative activities than the enzyme Cu2Zn2 superoxide dismutase (3). In the following, more or less arbitrary complexes of both amino acids and some peptides are compared regarding their ability to catalyze superoxide dismutation.
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Weser, U., Lengfelder, E., Sellinger, KH., Schobotz, L. (1982). Reactivity of Chelated Copper with Superoxide. In: Sorenson, J.R.J. (eds) Inflammatory Diseases and Copper. Experimental Biology and Medicine, vol 2. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5829-2_46
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