BNL-90632-2009-CP Hydride Transfer Made Easy in the Oxidation of Alcohols Catalyzed by Choline Oxidase Giovanni Gadda, Andrea Pennati, Kevin Francis, Osbourne Quaye, Hongling Yuan, Kunchala Rungsrisuriyachai, Steffan Finnegan, Slavica Mijatovic, Tranbao Nguyen Departments of Chemistry and Biology and The Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-4098 Allen M. Orville Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upon, NY 11973-5000 Presented at the 16 th International Symposium on Flavins and Flavoproteins Jaca, Spain June 8-13, 2008 January 2008 Biology Department Brookhaven National Laboratory P.O. Box 5000 Upton, NY 11973-5000 www.bnl.gov Notice: This manuscript has been authored by employees of Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The publisher by accepting the manuscript for publication acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. This preprint is intended for publication in a journal or proceedings. Since changes may be made before publication, it may not be cited or reproduced without the author’s permission.