Versatile peroxidase (, ''VP'', ''hybrid peroxidase'', ''polyvalent peroxidase'') is an
enzyme with
systematic name ''reactive-black-5:hydrogen-peroxide oxidoreductase''.
This enzyme
catalyses the following
chemical reaction
A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the chemical transformation of one set of chemical substances to another. Classically, chemical reactions encompass changes that only involve the positions of electrons in the forming and breakin ...
: (1) Reactive Black 5 + H
2O
2 oxidized Reactive Black 5 + 2 H
2O
: (2) donor + H
2O
2 oxidized donor + 2 H
2O
Versatile peroxidase is a
hemoprotein
A hemeprotein (or haemprotein; also hemoprotein or haemoprotein), or heme protein, is a protein that contains a heme prosthetic group. They are a very large class of metalloproteins. The heme group confers functionality, which can include oxyge ...
.
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