IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 1.14.11.71

Accepted name: methylphosphonate hydroxylase

Reaction: methylphosphonate + 2-oxoglutarate + O2 = hydroxymethylphosphonate + succinate + CO2

Other name(s): phnY* (gene name)

Systematic name: methylphosphonate,2-oxoglutarate:oxygen oxidoreductase (1-hydroxylating)

Comments: Requires iron((II). The enzyme, characterized from the marine bacterium Gimesia maris, participates in a methylphosphonate degradation pathway.

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References:

1. Gama, S.R., Vogt, M., Kalina, T., Hupp, K., Hammerschmidt, F., Pallitsch, K. and Zechel, D.L. An oxidative pathway for microbial utilization of methylphosphonic acid as a phosphate source. ACS Chem. Biol. 14 (2019) 735-741. [PMID: 30810303]

[EC 1.14.11.71 created 2019]


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