IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 1.13.11.43

Accepted name: lignostilbene αβ-dioxygenase

Reaction: 1,2-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)ethylene + O2 = 2 vanillin

Systematic name: 1,2-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)ethylene:oxygen oxidoreductase (αβ-bond-cleaving)

Comments: An iron protein. The enzyme catalyses oxidative cleavage of the interphenyl double bond in the synthetic substrate and lignin-derived stilbenes. It is responsible for the degradation of a diarylpropane-type structure in lignin.

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, Metacyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 124834-28-2

References:

1. Kamoda, S., Habu, N., Samejima, M. and Yoshimoto, T. Purification and some properties of lignostilbene-αβ- dioxygenase responsible for the Cα-Cβ cleavage of a diarylpropane type lignin model-compound from Pseudomonas sp TMY1009. Agric. Biol. Chem. 53 (1989) 2757-2761.

[EC 1.13.11.43 created 1992]


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