4-Oxalocrotonate tautomerase
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4-Oxalocrotonate tautomerase
| 4-oxalocrotonate tautomerase | |||||||||
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| Symbol | Taut | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF01361 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR004370 | ||||||||
| CDD | cd00491 | ||||||||
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4-Oxalocrotonate tautomerase (EC 5.3.2.-4-OT) is an enzyme that converts 2-hydroxymuconate to the αβ-unsaturated ketone, 2-oxo-3-hexenedioate.[1] This enzyme forms part of a bacterial metabolic pathway that oxidatively catabolizes toluene, o-xylene, 3-ethyltoluene, and 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene into intermediates of the citric acid cycle. With a monomer size of just 62 amino acid residues, the 4-Oxalocrotonate tautomerase is one of the smallest enzyme subunits known.[2] However, in solution, the enzyme forms a hexamer of six identical subunits, so the active site may be formed by amino acid residues from several subunits. This enzyme is also unusual in that it uses a proline residue at the amino terminus as an active site residue.
References
- ^ Chen LH, Kenyon GL, Curtin F, Harayama S, Bembenek ME, Hajipour G, Whitman CP (1992). "4-Oxalocrotonate tautomerase, an enzyme composed of 62 amino acid residues per monomer". J. Biol. Chem. 267 (25): 17716–21. PMID 1339435.
- ^ Whitman CP (2002). "The 4-oxalocrotonate tautomerase family of enzymes: how nature makes new enzymes using a beta-alpha-beta structural motif". Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 402 (1): 1–13. doi:10.1016/S0003-9861(02)00052-8. PMID 12051677.
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