IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 1.1.3.3

Accepted name: malate oxidase

Reaction: (S)-malate + O2 = oxaloacetate + H2O2

Other name(s): FAD-dependent malate oxidase; malic oxidase; malic dehydrogenase II

Systematic name: (S)-malate:oxygen oxidoreductase

Comments: A flavoprotein (FAD).

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, CAS registry number: 9028-73-3

References:

1. Cohn, D.V. The enzymatic formation of oxalacetic acid by nonpyridine nucleotide malic dehydrogenase of Micrococcus lysodeikticus. J. Biol. Chem. 233 (1958) 299-304.

2. Narindrasorasak, S., Goldie, A.H. and Sanwal, B.D. Characteristics and regulation of a phospholipid-activated malate oxidase from Escherichia coli. J. Biol. Chem. 254 (1979) 1540-1545. [PMID: 368072]

[EC 1.1.3.3 created 1961]


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