... cata-lyzes the dioxygen-dependent oxidative deamination of primary and secondary amines (sarcosine, N-ethylgly-cine, and glycine) and d-amino acids (d-alanine and d-proline), yielding the corresponding ... (PDB:3if9) (blue) structures shows the dif-ferent conformations of the main chain of the a2–a3 loop, seearrows [49]. For the sake of clarity, only the FAD and the ligandbelonging to the wild-type ... size of the side chain, directlyincreasing the volume of the active site, and enhance the flexibility of loops 20 and 130, allowing them toopen wider to accommodate longer ligands. Whenthese...