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Chlorite dismutase has been purified from the chlorate-metabolizing bacterium Ideonella dechloratans. The purified enzyme is tetrameric, with a relative molecular mass of 25,000 for the subunit, and contains about 0.6 heme/subunit as isolated. Its catalytic properties are similar, but not identical, to those found for a similar enzyme purified earlier from the bacterium GR-1. The heme group in Ideonella chlorite dismutase is readily reduced by dithionite, in contrast to the GR-1 enzyme, and redox titration gave a value of –21 mV for the midpoint potential at pH 7. The heme group has been characterized by optical and EPR spectroscopy. It is high-spin ferric at neutral pH, with spectroscopic properties similar to those found for cytochrome c peroxidase. In the alkaline pH range, a low-spin compound is formed. A 22-residue N-terminal amino acid sequence has been determined and no homologue has been found in the protein sequence databases.
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Stenklo, K., Danielsson Thorell, H., Bergius, H. et al. Chlorite dismutase from Ideonella dechloratans . JBIC 6, 601–607 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007750100237
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s007750100237