biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Němec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 46:481-490, 2003 | DOI: 10.1023/A:1024814007027

Molybdenum Cofactor-Containing Oxidoreductase Family in Plants

P. Sauer1, I. Frébort1
1 Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Recent investigations on plant molybdenum-containing enzymes that include xanthine dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.204) and xanthine oxidase (EC 1.1.3.22), nitrate reductase (EC 1.7.1.1-3), aldehyde oxidase (EC 1.2.3.1), and sulfite oxidase (EC 1.8.3.1) are reviewed. The enzymes belong to closely related protein family and share common structural features. Special attention is being paid to the recently solved crystal structures their implications for the substrate binding and catalytic mechanism.

Keywords: aldehyde oxidase; amino acid sequence; xanthine dehydrogenase; xanthine oxidase
Subjects: aldehyde oxidase; amino acids; auxins; 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid diogenase; molybdenum cofactor (Moco); molybdopterin; nitrate reductase; oxidoreductase; relative water content; sulfite oxidase; xanthine dehydrogenase; xanthine oxidase

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