Chlorite dismutase
chlorite dismutase | |||||||||
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Identifiers | |||||||||
EC number | 1.13.11.49 | ||||||||
Databases | |||||||||
IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
Gene Ontology | AmiGO / EGO | ||||||||
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Chlorite dismutase, also known as Chlorite O2-lyase (EC 1.13.11.49), is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
- ClO−
2 → Cl− + O2
Reactions that generate oxygen molecules are exceedingly rare in biology and difficult to mimic synthetically. Perchlorate - respiring bacteria enzymatically detoxify chlorite, ClO−
2, the end product of the perchlorate, ClO−
4 respiratory pathway, by converting it to dioxygen, O2 and chloride, Cl−.[1] Chlorite dismutase is a heme-containing protein, but it bears no structural or sequence relationships with known peroxidases or other heme proteins and is part of a large family of proteins with more than one biochemical function.
References
- ↑ DuBois, Jennifer L.; Ojha, Sunil (2015). "Chapter 3 Production of Dioxygen in the Dark: Dismutases of Oxyanions". In Peter M.H. Kroneck and Martha E. Sosa Torres. Sustaining Life on Planet Earth: Metalloenzymes Mastering Dioxygen and Other Chewy Gases. Metal Ions in Life Sciences. 15. Springer. pp. 45–87. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-12415-5_3.
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