... these states are alternated, has beenproposed [16]. The met state is the resting state of the enzyme, and in the absence of substrate about 85–90% of the enzyme is in this state [16]. Both the ... either from the mass fingerprint orpurified peptides, covered 60.3% of the sequence, and the masses of cyanogen bromide fragments, including the N-terminal and C-terminal ones, covered 94.9% of the ... available, and will enable more detailed analy-sis of the exact reaction mechanisms. The tyrosinasestructure, wherein the active site was located at the bottom of a large vacant space and one of the...