| Literature DB >> 22304755 |
Benjamin Philmus1, Sameh Abdelwahed, Howard J Williams, Michael K Fenwick, Steven E Ealick, Tadhg P Begley.
Abstract
Toxoflavin (an azapteridine) is degraded to a single product by toxoflavin lyase (TflA) in a reaction dependent on reductant, Mn(II), and oxygen. The isolated product was fully characterized by NMR and MS and was identified as a triazine in which the pyrimidine ring was oxidatively degraded. A mechanism for toxoflavin degradation based on the identification of the enzymatic product and the recently determined crystal structure of toxoflavin lyase is proposed.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22304755 PMCID: PMC3332044 DOI: 10.1021/ja211759n
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Am Chem Soc ISSN: 0002-7863 Impact factor: 15.419