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    Cobalt chelatase (EC 6.6.1.2) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + hydrogenobyrinic acid a,c-diamide + Co2+ + H2O ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons...
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    tetrapyrrole macrocycle. Several families of chelatase are known including cobalt chelatase, magnesium chelatase, and ferrochelatase. Nickel insertion into...
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    is cobalt-sirohydrochlorin cobalt-lyase (sirohydrochlorin-forming). Other names in common use include CbiK, CbiX, CbiXS, anaerobic cobalt chelatase, cobaltochelatase...
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    the metal cation is inserted into protoporphyrin IX by enzymes called chelatases. For example, ferrochelatase converts the compound into heme B (i.e. Fe-protoporphyrin...
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    + 2 phosphate + 2 glutamic acid Cobalt(II) insertion into the macrocycle is catalysed by the enzyme Cobalt chelatase (CobNST): hydrogenobyrinic acid a...
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    the metal in the N42- "pocket." In nature, the insertion is mediated by chelatase enzymes. The insertion of a metal proceeds by the intermediacy of a "sitting...
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    tetrapyrrole is catalysed in reaction EC 4.99.1.11 by the same chelatase, CbiX, which inserts cobalt in the biosynthesis of cobalamin, here giving nickel(II)-sirohydrochlorin...
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