Chorismate lyase

Chorismate lyase
Chorismate lyase
Identifiers
EC number 4.1.3.40
CAS number 157482-18-3
Databases
IntEnz IntEnz view
BRENDA BRENDA entry
ExPASy NiceZyme view
KEGG KEGG entry
MetaCyc metabolic pathway
PRIAM profile
PDB structures RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum
Chorismate lyase
PDB 1tt8 EBI.jpg
chorismate lyase with product, 1.0 a resolution
Identifiers
Symbol Chor_lyase
Pfam PF04345
Pfam clan CL0122
InterPro IPR007440
SCOP 1jd3

In enzymology, a chorismate lyase (EC 4.1.3.40) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

chorismate \rightleftharpoons 4-hydroxybenzoate + pyruvate

Hence, this enzyme has one substrate, chorismate, and two products, 4-hydroxybenzoate and pyruvate.

This enzyme belongs to the family of lyases, specifically the oxo-acid-lyases, which cleave carbon-carbon bonds. The systematic name of this enzyme class is chorismate pyruvate-lyase (4-hydroxybenzoate-forming). Other names in common use include CL, CPL, and UbiC.

This enzyme catalyses the first step in ubiquinone biosynthesis, the removal of pyruvate from chorismate, to yield 4-hydroxybenzoate in Escherichia coli and other Gram-negative bacteria.[1] Its activity does not require metal cofactors.[2]

References

  1. ^ Nichols BP, Green JM (August 1992). "Cloning and sequencing of Escherichia coli ubiC and purification of chorismate lyase". J. Bacteriol. 174 (16): 5309–16. PMC 206367. PMID 1644758. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=206367. 
  2. ^ Siebert M, Severin K, Heide L (April 1994). "Formation of 4-hydroxybenzoate in Escherichia coli: characterization of the ubiC gene and its encoded enzyme chorismate pyruvate-lyase". Microbiology (Reading, Engl.) 140 ( Pt 4): 897–904. doi:10.1099/00221287-140-4-897. PMID 8012607. 

Further reading

This article includes text from the public domain Pfam and InterPro IPR007440