Double stranded DNA was cleaved oxidatively by incubation with oxygenated myoglobin, and Lys96Cys sperm whale myoglobin in its stable ferric form functioned as an artificial nuclease under air by formation of an oxygenated species, owing to electron transfer from the SH group of the introduced cysteine to the heme.
M. S. Deshpande, S. Junedi, H. Prakash, S. Nagao, M. Yamanaka and S. Hirota, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 15034 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC06617K
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