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Nitroreductase activity of heart lipoamide dehydrogenase.


ABSTRACT: A novel reaction catalysed by lipoamide dehydrogenase is described. In the presence of NADH, lipoamide dehydrogenase reduces the nitro group of 4-nitropyridine and 4-nitropyridine N-oxide. The elution profiles from a DEAE-cellulose column for the dehydrogenase and nitroreductase activities are identical. Chemical modifications of critical amino acid residues suggest that the two activities share a common catalytic domain. Nitro reduction catalysed by lipoamide dehydrogenase was monitored spectrophotometrically and chromatographically. The major product from the enzymic reduction of 4-nitropyridine was isolated and characterized structurally as NN-bis(pyridinyl)hydroxylamine, which is formed presumably via 4-hydroxyaminopyridine in a four-electron redox reaction.

SUBMITTER: Tsai CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1147725 | biostudies-other | 1987 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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