Part:BBa_K357001
muconate and chloromuconate cycloisomerase
Muconate Lactonizing Enzyme (MLE), an homooctameric enzyme, catalyses the conversion of cis,cis-muconate (CCM) to muconolactone (ML) in the catechol branch of the beta-ketoadipate pathway. This pathway is used in soil microbes to breakdown lignin-derived aromatics, catechol and protocatechuate, to citric acid cycle intermediates. Some bacterial species are also capable of dehalogenating chloroaromatic compounds by the action of chloromuconate lactonizing enzymes (Cl-MLEs). MLEs are members of the enolase superfamily characterized by the presence of an enolate anion intermediate which is generated by abstraction of the alpha-proton of the carboxylate substrate by an active site residue and that is stabilized by coordination to the essential Mg2+ ion.
Sequence and Features
- 10COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
- 12INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]Illegal NheI site found at 799
- 21COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
- 23COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
- 25COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
- 1000COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
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