... bind each other’s metals, they are inactivewhen the wrong metal is incorporated at the active site[3]. However, several SODs are active in the presence of either Fe or Mn. These types of SODs ... ligands in the Mn-reconstituted enzyme and an additional water oxy-gen, which, together with the OD2 of Asp165, the NE2 of His79 and the NE2 of His169, formed anequatorial plane (Fig. 3B). The metal ... metal cofactor.Figure 3D shows the superimposition of the active site structures of apo, Mn-bound and Fe-bound Ape-SODs. The most significant difference among themwas related to the OH of Tyr39,...