2-nitroimidazole nitrohydrolase

2-nitroimidazole nitrohydrolase
Identifiers
EC number 3.5.99.9
Databases
IntEnz IntEnz view
BRENDA BRENDA entry
ExPASy NiceZyme view
KEGG KEGG entry
MetaCyc metabolic pathway
PRIAM profile
PDB structures RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum

2-nitroimidazole nitrohydrolase (EC 3.5.99.9, NnhA, 2NI nitrohydrolase, 2NI denitrase) is an enzyme with systematic name 2-nitroimidazole nitrohydrolase.[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

2-nitroimidazole + H2O imidazol-2-one + nitrite

This enzyme is present in the soil bacterium Mycobacterium sp. JS330

References

  1. Qu, Y.; Spain, J.C. (2011). "Catabolic pathway for 2-nitroimidazole involves a novel nitrohydrolase that also confers drug resistance". Environ Microbiol. 13 (4): 1010–1017. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02406.x. PMID 21244596.

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