Chapter 6:Multiheme Peroxidases
Chapter 6:Multiheme Peroxidases
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第 6 章:多血红素过氧化物酶
DOI:
10.1039/9781782622628-00113
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发表时间:
2015
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Einsle
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作者:
Brausemann;Seidel;Einsle
The detoxification of reactive oxygen species is a major task for any organism growing in a microaerobic or aerobic habitat. With its triplet ground state, the diradical dioxygen is kinetically stable, but it reacts readily with compounds that contain unpaired electrons. The four-electron reduction of O2 to H2O is the driving force of aerobic respiration, but the one-and two-electron reduced intermediates superoxide and peroxide constitute a substantial threat for the cell due to unwanted radical-based chemistry. Consequently, evolution has brought forth a series of enzymes that reduce, cleave or disproportionate such reactive oxygen species, employing almost the complete range of bioavailable metal ions in the process. For peroxides, the heme cofactor has proven highly useful, and beside the well-characterized monofunctional peroxidases discussed elsewhere in this volume, the present chapter highlights a solution found exclusively in prokaryotes, the diheme peroxide reductases of the CcpA family. 1 Nature has found various ways for disposing of hydrogen peroxide, most commonly in catalases that elegantly disproportionate O2 2À to form O2 and H2O. This process requires the reduction of H2O2 to yield water and an oxygen atom bound to the distal axial position of the oxidized heme group. A second molecule of H2O2 then is oxidized, so that in a complete catalytic