Anthranilate Hydroxylase from Aspergillus niger: New Type of NADPH-Linked Nonheme Iron Monooxygenase

Subramanian, V and Vaidyanathan, CS (1984) Anthranilate Hydroxylase from Aspergillus niger: New Type of NADPH-Linked Nonheme Iron Monooxygenase. In: Journal of Bacteriology, 160 (2). pp. 651-655.

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Abstract

Anthranilate hydroxylase from Aspergillus niger catalyzes the oxidative deamination and dihydroxylation of anthranilic acid to 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid. This enzyme has been purified to homogeneity and has a molecular weight of 89,000. The enzyme is composed of two subunits of 42,000 with 2 gram-atoms of nonheme iron per mol. Fe2+-chelators like alpha,alpha'-dipyridyl and o-phenanthroline are potent inhibitors of the enzyme activity. Absorption and fluorescence spectra of the enzyme offer no evidence for the presence of other cofactors like flavin. Flavins and flavin-specific inhibitors like atebrin have no effect on the activity of the enzyme. The enzyme incorporates one atom of oxygen each from 18O2 and H218O into the product 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid. Based on these studies, it is concluded that anthranilate hydroxylase from A. niger is a new type of NADPH-linked nonheme iron monooxygenase.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Bacteriology
Publisher:	American society for microbiology
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to American society for microbiology
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Biochemistry
Date Deposited:	26 May 2009 05:28
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:32
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/20237

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