| benzoylformate decarboxylase | |
| Ec Number: | 4.1.1.7 |
| Cas Number: | 9025-00-7 |
| Go Code: | 0050695 |
| Width: | 270 |
The enzyme benzoylformate decarboxylase catalyzes the following chemical reaction:
benzoylformate + H+
\rightleftharpoons
Hence, this enzyme has one substrate, benzoylformate, and two products, benzaldehyde and CO2.
This enzyme belongs to the family of lyases, specifically the carboxy-lyases, which cleave carbon-carbon bonds. The systematic name of this enzyme class is benzoylformate carboxy-lyase (benzaldehyde-forming). Other names in common use include phenylglyoxylate decarboxylase, and benzoylformate carboxy-lyase. This enzyme participates in benzoate degradation via hydroxylation and toluene and xylene degradation. It employs one cofactor, thiamin diphosphate.
As of late 2007, 8 structures have been solved for this class of enzymes, with PDB accession codes,,,,,,, and .