7-methylxanthine_demethylase

7-Methylxanthine demethylase

7-Methylxanthine demethylase

Class of enzymes

7-Methylxanthine demethylase (EC 1.14.13.128) is an enzyme with systematic name 7-methylxanthine:oxygen oxidoreductase (demethylating).[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

7-methylxanthine + O2 + NAD(P)H + H+ xanthine + NAD(P)+ + H2O + formaldehyde
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7-Methylxanthine demethylase is a non-heme iron oxygenase.

References

  1. [1]
    Summers RM, Louie TM, Yu CL, Subramanian M (February 2011). "Characterization of a broad-specificity non-haem iron N-demethylase from Pseudomonas putida CBB5 capable of utilizing several purine alkaloids as sole carbon and nitrogen source". Microbiology. 157 (Pt 2): 583–92. doi:10.1099/mic.0.043612-0. PMID 20966097.
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