... of the ligands,OD2 of Asp165, NE2 of His79 and NE2 of His169,formed an equatorial plane. The other protein ligand,NE2 of His31, bound to the metal, in the company of a water oxygen, from the ... ApeSOD. This implies that the conformationaround the active site of ApeSOD is independent of the presence of a metal cofactor.Figure 3D shows the superimposition of the activesite structures of apo, ... [26]. These findingslead to the hypothesis that Fe-bound ApeSOD mimics the product-inhibited form and the shift of Tyr39 sup-presses the release of the peroxide product. This maybe one of the...