Nitrite dismutase
Nitrite dismutase (EC 1.7.6.1, Prolixin S, Nitrophorin 7) is an enzyme with systematic name nitrite:nitrite oxidoreductase.[1][2] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
- 3 nitrite + 2 H+ 2 nitric oxide + nitrate + H2O
| Nitrite dismutase | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC number | 1.7.6.1 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
| |||||||||
Nitrite dismutase contains ferriheme b.
References
- He C, Knipp M (September 2009). "Formation of nitric oxide from nitrite by the ferriheme b protein nitrophorin 7". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131 (34): 12042–3. doi:10.1021/ja9040362. PMID 19655755.
- He C, Ogata H, Knipp M (July 2010). "Formation of the complex of nitrite with the ferriheme b beta-barrel proteins nitrophorin 4 and nitrophorin 7". Biochemistry. 49 (28): 5841–51. doi:10.1021/bi100324z. PMID 20524697.
External links
- Nitrite+dismutase at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.