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The enzyme, characterized from the bacterium Sorangium cellulosum, is a class I cytochrome P-450, and uses ferredoxin as its electron donor [1]. It was shown to act on several C-19 steroid substrates, including testosterone, androstenedione, testosterone-acetate and 11-oxoandrostenedione [2]. |
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Ewen, K.M., Hannemann, F., Khatri, Y., Perlova, O., Kappl, R., Krug, D., Huttermann, J., Muller, R. and Bernhardt, R. Genome mining in Sorangium cellulosum So ce56: identification and characterization of the homologous electron transfer proteins of a myxobacterial cytochrome P450. J. Biol. Chem. 284 (2009) 28590–28598. [DOI] [PMID: 19696019] |
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Khatri, Y., Ringle, M., Lisurek, M., von Kries, J.P., Zapp, J. and Bernhardt, R. Substrate hunting for the myxobacterial CYP260A1 revealed new 1α-hydroxylated products from C-19 steroids. ChemBioChem 17 (2016) 90–101. [DOI] [PMID: 26478560] |
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