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Dihydrooxonate is a substrate of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHOD) providing evidence for involvement of cysteine and serine residues in base catalysis.
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics - 15 Jul 2001
Björnberg O, Jordan D B, Palfey B A, Jensen K F
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The flavoprotein dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHOD) catalyzes the oxidation of dihydroorotate to orotate. Dihydrooxonate is an analogue of dihydroorotate in which the C5 carbon is substituted by a nitrogen atom. We have investigated dihydrooxonate as a substrate of three DHODs, each representing a distinct evolutionary class of the enzyme, namely the two family 1 enzymes from Lactococcus lactis, DHODA and DHODB,...
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