Nitrate reductase (quinone)

Nitrate reductase (quinone) (EC 1.7.5.1, nitrate reductase A, nitrate reductase Z, quinol/nitrate oxidoreductase, quinol-nitrate oxidoreductase, quinol:nitrate oxidoreductase, NarA, NarZ, NarGHI) is an enzyme with systematic name nitrite:quinone oxidoreductase.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

nitrate + a quinol ${\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons }$ nitrite + a quinone + H₂O

Nitrate reductase (quinone)
Identifiers
EC no.	1.7.5.1
Databases
IntEnz	IntEnz view
BRENDA	BRENDA entry
ExPASy	NiceZyme view
KEGG	KEGG entry
MetaCyc	metabolic pathway
PRIAM	profile
PDB structures	RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum
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This is a membrane-bound enzyme which supports [anaerobic respiration] on nitrate.