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Enzymes and Coenzymes > Enzymes > Oxidoreductases > Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-CH Group Donors > Coproporphyrinogen Oxidase

Preferred term

Coproporphyrinogen Oxidase  

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Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Coproporphyrinogenase
  • Coproporphyrinogen III Oxidases
  • III Oxidases, Coproporphyrinogen
  • Oxidases, Coproporphyrinogen III

Scope note

  • An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidative decarboxylation of coproporphyrinogen III to protoporphyrinogen IX by the conversion of two propionate groups to two vinyl groups. It is the sixth enzyme in the 8-enzyme biosynthetic pathway of HEME, and is encoded by CPO gene. Mutations of CPO gene result in HEREDITARY COPROPORPHYRIA.

History note

  • 91(76); was see under OXIDOREDUCTASES 1976-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003304

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