Binding sites dimethylsulfoxide complexes

By contrast, the catalytic site responsible for the halogenation, hydroxylation, and other (two-electron) oxygenation reactions has been better, although not completely, characterized by X-ray crystallography of CPO complexed with several substrates (such as iodide/bromide and cyclopentane-1,3-dione) and other compounds (such as carbon monoxide, thiocyanate, nitrate, acetate, formate and, in a ternary complex, with dimethylsulfoxide and cyanide) [88, 90]. The above substrates bind at the distal side of heme, and the corresponding structures were also useful to establish the mechanism of Compound I formation as discussed above [90]. 

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