IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 2.3.1.56

Accepted name: aromatic-hydroxylamine O-acetyltransferase

Reaction: N-hydroxy-4-acetylaminobiphenyl + N-hydroxy-4-aminobiphenyl = N-hydroxy-4-aminobiphenyl + N-acetoxy-4-aminobiphenyl

Other name(s): aromatic hydroxylamine acetyltransferase; arylhydroxamate acyltransferase; arylhydroxamate N,O-acetyltransferase; arylhydroxamic acid N,O-acetyltransferase; arylhydroxamic acyltransferase; N,O-acetyltransferase; N-hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene N-O acyltransferase

Systematic name: N-hydroxy-4-acetylaminobiphenyl:N-hydroxy-4-aminobiphenyl O-acetyltransferase

Comments: Transfers the N-acetyl group of some aromatic acethydroxamates to the O-position of some aromatic hydroxylamines.

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, Metacyc, CAS registry number: 52660-15-8

References:

1. Bartsch, H., Dworkin, C., Miller, E.C. and Miller, J.A. Formation of electrophilic N-acetoxyarylamines in cytosoles from rat mammary gland and other tissues by transacetylation from the carcinogen N-hydroxy-4-acetylaminobiphenyl. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 304 (1973) 42-55. [PMID: 4699998]

[EC 2.3.1.56 created 1976]


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