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T Kakutani

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PubMed1981

Purification and properties of a copper-containing nitrite reductase from a denitrifying bacterium, Alcaligenes faecalis strain S-6.

A copper-containing nitrite reductase was purified and crystallized from a potent denitrifying bacterium, Alcaligenes faecalis strain S-6. The enzyme was composed of 4 subunits with a molecular weight of about 30,000, each containing 1 atom of Cu2+. Nitric oxide was identified as a main reduction product from nitrite in the enzyme-catalyzed reaction. The enzyme activity was inhibited strongly by KCN but only slightly by sulfhydryl reagents such as p-chloromercuribenzoate and N-ethylmaleimide.

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PubMed1981

A blue protein as an inactivating factor for nitrite reductase from Alcaligenes faecalis strain S-6.

A blue protein with a molecule weight of 12,000 containing 1 atom of type I Cu2+ was purified and crystallized from a denitrifying bacterium, Alcaligenes faecalis strain S-6, as an inactivating factor for copper-containing nitrite reductase of the same organism. Inactivation of the enzyme occurred when the enzyme was incubated aerobically with a catalytic amount of the blue protein in the presence of reducing agents such as cysteine and ascorbate. The blue protein acts as a direct electron donor for the enzyme to catalyze the reduction of nitrite, but in the absence of nitrite, the enzyme-reduced blue protein system reacts with oxygen to produce H2O2. A suicide inactivation mechanism of the enzyme due to this H2O2 production is proposed.

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