Nitrite dismutase
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| EC number | 1.7.6.1 | ||||||||
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| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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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 ontains ferriheme b.
References
- ↑ He, C.; Knipp, M. (2009). "Formation of nitric oxide from nitrite by the ferriheme b protein nitrophorin 7". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131 (34): 12042–12043. doi:10.1021/ja9040362. PMID 19655755.
- ↑ He, C.; Ogata, H.; Knipp, M. (2010). "Formation of the complex of nitrite with the ferriheme b β-barrel proteins nitrophorin 4 and nitrophorin 7". Biochemistry. 49 (28): 5841–5851. doi:10.1021/bi100324z. PMID 20524697.
External links
- Nitrite dismutase at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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