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1.7.1.3

Accepted name:

nitrate reductase (NADPH)

Reaction:

nitrite + NADP⁺ + H₂O = nitrate + NADPH + H⁺

Other name(s):

assimilatory nitrate reductase (ambiguous); assimilatory reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-nitrate reductase; NADPH-nitrate reductase; assimilatory NADPH-nitrate reductase; triphosphopyridine nucleotide-nitrate reductase; NADPH:nitrate reductase; nitrate reductase (NADPH₂); NADPH₂:nitrate oxidoreductase

Systematic name:

nitrite:NADP⁺ oxidoreductase

Comments:

An iron-sulfur molybdenum flavoprotein.

Links to other databases:

BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, MetaCyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 9029-28-1

References:

1.	Nason, A. Nitrate reductases. In: Boyer, P.D., Lardy, H. and Myrbäck, K. (Ed.), The Enzymes, 2nd edn, vol. 7, Academic Press, New York, 1963, pp. 587–607.
2.	Nason, A. and Evans, H.J. Triphosphopyridine nucleotide-nitrate reductase in Neurospora. J. Biol. Chem. 202 (1953) 655–673. [PMID: 13061490]
3.	Nicholas, D.J.D. and Nason, A. Molybdenum and nitrate reductase. II. Molybdenum as a constituent of nitrate reductase. J. Biol. Chem. 207 (1954) 353–360. [PMID: 13152110]
4.	Taniguchi, H., Mitsui, H., Nakamura, K. and Egami, F. Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Ser. A II 60 (1955) 200.
5.	Berks, B.C., Ferguson, S.J., Moir, J.W. and Richardson, D.J. Enzymes and associated electron transport systems that catalyse the respiratory reduction of nitrogen oxides and oxyanions. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1232 (1995) 97–173. [DOI] [PMID: 8534676]

[EC 1.7.1.3 created 1961 as EC 1.6.6.3, transferred 2002 to EC 1.7.1.3]