Literature summary extracted from

LaMattina, J.; Delrossi, M.; Uy, K.; Keul, N.; Nix, D.; Neelam, A.; Lanzilotta, W.
Anaerobic heme degradation: ChuY is an anaerobilin reductase that exhibits kinetic cooperativity (2017), Biochemistry, 56, 845-855.

Organism

EC Number	Organism	UniProt	Comment	Textmining
2.1.1.342	Escherichia coli	-	-	-

Synonyms

EC Number	Synonyms	Comment	Organism
2.1.1.342	chuW	-	Escherichia coli

General Information

EC Number	General Information	Comment	Organism
2.1.1.342	physiological function	the oxygen-independent heme degradation pathway of Escherichia coli O157:H7 consists of ChuW, a radical SAM methyltransferase, which methylates heme to form the linear tetrapyrrole anaerobilin and liberate iron. ChuY uses anaerobilin as a substrate, reducing it to the tetrapyrrole termed anaerorubin	Escherichia coli

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Release 2023.1 (January 2023)