Cupredoxins contain type I copper centers and are involved in inter-molecular electron transfer reactions. Cupredoxins are blue copper proteins because they have an intense blue color due to the presence of a mononuclear type 1 (T1) copper site. Structurally, the cupredoxin-like fold consists of a beta-sandwich with 7 strands in 2 beta-sheets, which is arranged in a Greek-key beta-barrel. Some of these proteins have lost the ability to bind copper. Majority of family members contain multiple cupredoxin domain repeats; ceruloplasmin and coagulation factors V/VIII have six repeats; Laccase, ascorbate oxidase, and spore coat protein A, and multicopper oxidase CueO contain three repeats; and nitrite reductase has two repeats. Others are mono-domain cupredoxins, such as plastocyanin, pseudoazurin, plantacyanin, azurin, rusticyanin, stellacyanin, quinol oxidase and the periplasmic domain of cytochrome c oxidase subunit II.
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