Activities in Family	AA11 proteins are copper-dependent lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs); cleavage of chitin chains with oxidation of C-1 has been demonstrated for a AA11 LPMO from Aspergillus oryzae;
Mechanism	monooxygenase
Note	Family built after Hemsworth et al. Nature Chem. Biol. (2014) 10, 122-126 (PMID 24362702); distantly related to family AA9.
External resources	CAZypedia;
Statistics	GenBank accession (82); Uniprot accession (1); PDB accession (2); 3D entries (1); cryst (0)

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