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Query: UNIPROT:P47989 (xanthine oxidase)
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Arthrobacter S-2, originally isolated by enrichment on xanthine, produced high levels of xanthine oxidase activity, requiring as little as a 20-fold purification to approach homogeneity with some preparations. Molecular oxygen, ferricyanide, and 2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol served as electron acceptors, but nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide did not. The enzyme was relatively specific when compared with previously studied xanthine-oxidizing enzymes, but at least one purine was observed to be oxidized at each of the three positions of the purine ring that have been subject to oxidation by this type of enzyme. The enzyme had a relatively high Km for xanthine (1.3 X 10(-4) M), and substrate inhibition was not observed with this compound, in contrast to the enzyme from cow's milk. In fact, an opposite effect was observed, and double-reciprocal plots with xanthine as the variable substrate showed a concave downward deviation at high concentrations. At 2.5 mM xanthine the enzyme had a specific activity approximately 50 times that of the most active preparations of the milk enzyme. The spectrum of the Arthrobacter enzyme resembled that of milk xanthine oxidase, suggesting a similarity of the prosthetic centers of the two enzymes. The bacterial enzyme was relatively small and may be dimeric, with approximate native and subunit molecular weights of 146,000 and 79,000, respectively.
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PMID:Bacterial xanthine oxidase from Arthrobacter S-2. 68 Dec 79

Xanthine oxidase has been recognized as an important source of oxygen free radicals in ischemia-reperfusion injury. In order to study this enzyme in biological tissues, the conversion of pterin (2-amino-4-hydroxypteridine) to isoxanthopterin provides the basis for a very sensitive fluorometric assay. Xanthine oxidase is typically assayed in the presence of pterin only, while an electron acceptor which replaces NAD+ is used to determine the combined xanthine dehydrogenase plus xanthine oxidase activity. 2,6-Dichlorophenol-indophenol has been used as an electron acceptor in this assay. However, it was found in this study that it acts as an effective competitive inhibitor for xanthine oxidase. We concluded that methylene blue is the electron acceptor of choice in the fluorometric assays for xanthine oxidase.
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PMID:2,6-Dichlorophenolindophenol is a competitive inhibitor for xanthine oxidase and is therefore not usable as an electron acceptor in the fluorometric assay. 156 44

We have developed a new enzymatic assay for the determination of inorganic phosphate (Pi) in serum, using nucleoside phosphorylase (NP) and xanthine oxidase (XOD). Pi and inosine react to form hypoxanthine and ribose-1-phosphate. The hypoxanthine is oxidized to xanthine, which is further oxidized to uric acid. In these two reactions 2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol (DCIP) is reduced to a colourless compound and the decrease in colour is measured spectrophotometrically at 600 nm. The assay is automated with an RA-XT analyser. The precision of the automated assay is acceptable (C.V. < 3.5%) and results are accurate and linear across a range of values from 0.2-2.5 mmol/l. The assay correlates well with molybdate methods carried out on SMAC III and RA-XT analysers (r values 0.99 and 0.98, respectively), and seems to be less prone to non-specific sample interference than the usual RA-XT method. The enzymatic assay described seems to be suitable for the routine determination of serum Pi.
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PMID:An enzymatic assay of inorganic phosphate in serum using nucleoside phosphorylase and xanthine oxidase. 814 61

Methanol-grown Amycolatopsis methanolica NCIB 11946 contains a molybdoprotein dehydrogenase, active with aldehydes and formate esters as substrates and with Wurster's blue as electron acceptor, the so-called formate ester dehydrogenase (FEDH) (van Ophem et al., 1992, Eur. J. Biochem. 206, 519-525). It appears now that another molybdoprotein dehydrogenase is present in this organism. This enzyme, indicated here as dye-linked aldehyde dehydrogenase (DL-AlDH), has the same set of cofactors and converts the same type of substrates but with different specificity, and uses 2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol as sole artificial electron acceptor for those conversions. The enzymes also differ in their quaternary structure, FEDH having an alpha, beta, gamma and DL-AlDH having an alpha, beta, gamma 2 composition. Furthermore, differences exist with respect to the sizes and the N-terminal amino acid sequences of their subunits, indicating that the enzymes derive from different genes. However, neither their substrate specificity nor their induction pattern give a clear indication for distinct physiological roles. Just like other bacterial molybdoprotein dehydrogenases, DL-AlDH consists of three different subunits (87, 35, and 17 kDa) and contains FAD, molybdopterin-cytosine-dinucleotide cofactor, Fe, and acid-labile sulfide in a molar ratio of 1:1:4:4. Although eukaryotic xanthine oxidase and dehydrogenase differ from these prokaryotic dehydrogenases in size and number of their subunits, certain stretches of amino acid sequences show similarity and the magnetic coupling between the Mo and the [2Fe-2S]-1 cluster in DL-AlDH and bovine milk xanthine oxidase is of the same magnitude. In view of this similarity, the topology of the cofactors in the active site of this type of molybdoproteins might be conserved among enzymes from prokaryotic as well as eukaryotic organisms.
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PMID:A second molybdoprotein aldehyde dehydrogenase from Amycolatopsis methanolica NCIB 11946. 855 33