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SUBMITTER: Beaven G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4051546 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beaven G G Bowyer A A Erskine P P Wood S P SP McCoy A A Coates L L Keegan R R Lebedev A A Hopper D J DJ Kaderbhai M A MA Cooper J B JB
Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications 20140525 Pt 6
The enzyme 2,4'-dihydroxyacetophenone dioxygenase (or DAD) catalyses the conversion of 2,4'-dihydroxyacetophenone to 4-hydroxybenzoic acid and formic acid with the incorporation of molecular oxygen. Whilst the vast majority of dioxygenases cleave within the aromatic ring of the substrate, DAD is very unusual in that it is involved in C-C bond cleavage in a substituent of the aromatic ring. There is evidence that the enzyme is a homotetramer of 20.3 kDa subunits each containing nonhaem iron and i ...[more]