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Arsenate Reductase (ArsC) family, ArsC subfamily; arsenic reductases similar to that encoded by arsC on the R733 plasmid of Escherichia coli. E. coli ArsC catalyzes the reduction of arsenate [As(V)] to arsenite [As(III)], the first step in the detoxification of arsenic, using reducing equivalents derived from glutathione (GSH) via glutaredoxin (GRX). ArsC contains a single catalytic cysteine, within a thioredoxin fold, that forms a covalent thiolate-As(V) intermediate, which is reduced by GRX through a mixed GSH-arsenate intermediate. This family of predominantly bacterial enzymes is unrelated to two other families of arsenate reductases which show similarity to low-molecular-weight acid phosphatases and phosphotyrosyl phosphatases.
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