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Cobalt-precorrin 5A hydrolase

Cobalt-precorrin 5A hydrolase (), CbiG (gene)) is an enzyme with systematic name cobalt-precorrin 5A acylhydrolase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

cobalt-precorrin-5A + H<sub>2</sub>O cobalt-precorrin-5B + acetaldehyde + 2 H<sup>+</sup>

This enzyme hydrolyses the ring A acetate delta-lactone of cobalt-precorrin-5A and releases a two-carbon fragment from the macrocyclic corrin ring as acetaldehyde. This is part of the biosynthetic pathway to cobalamin (vitamin B<sub>12</sub>) in anaerobic bacteria such as Salmonella typhimurium and Bacillus megaterium.

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