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  • 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.
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Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Escherichia coli
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Synonyms

Synonyms Comment Organism
chuW
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Escherichia coli

General Information

General Information Comment Organism
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