This enzyme allows the common pollutant tetrachloroethene to support bacterial growth and is responsible for disposal of a number of chlorinated hydrocarbons. The reaction occurs in the reverse direction. The enzyme also reduces trichloroethene to dichloroethene. Although the physiological reductant is unknown, the supply of reductant in some organisms involves menaquinol, which is reduced by molecular hydrogen via the action of EC 1.12.5.1, hydrogen:quinone oxidoreductase. The enzyme contains a corrinoid and two iron-sulfur clusters. Methyl viologen can act as electron donor in vitro.
History
EC 1.21.99.5 created 2001 as EC 1.97.1.8, transferred 2017 to EC 1.21.99.5
Reductive dechlorination in the energy metabolism of anaerobic bacteria.
Journal
FEMS Microbiol Rev 22:383-398 (1998)
Reference
2
Authors
Glod G, Angst W, Holliger C, Schwarzenbach RP.
Title
Corrinoid-mediated reduction of tetrachloroethene, trichloroethene, and trichlorofluoroethene in homogeneous aqueous solution: Reaction kinetics and reaction mechanisms.