chlorite dismutase | |||||||||
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Identifiers | |||||||||
EC no. | 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 / QuickGO | ||||||||
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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
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 hemoprotein, 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.