Identification and characterization of an inhibitory metal ion-binding site in ferrochelatase.

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Ferrochelatase catalyzes the insertion of ferrous iron into protoporphyrin IX to form heme. The severe metal ion substrate inhibition observed during in vitro studies of the purified enzyme is almost completely eliminated by mutation of an active site histidine residue (His-287, murine ferrochelatase numbering) to leucine and reduced over 2 orders of magnitude by mutation of a nearby conserved phenylalanine...

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