What is the hydroxylating species and how is the phenolic substrate bound to tyrosinase? Answers to these questions are promised by comparison of results from studies of model complexes with crystal structures of type 3 copper proteins. The present understanding of bonding (see picture) and conversion of substrates at binuclear, oxygen-activating copper active sites is described.
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Decker et al. (2000) studied this question.