| Type: | Family | Name: | Sarcosine oxidase, alpha subunit |
| Description: | This entry represents the alpha subunit of the heterotetrameric sarcosine oxidases (). Five operons of such oxidases are found in Rhizobium loti(Mesorhizobium loti) and three in Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a high enough copy number to suggest that not all members share the same function. Sarcosine oxidase subunit alpha catalyses the oxidative demethylation of sarcosine to yield glycine, hydrogen peroxide and 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate [, ]. Bacterial sarcosine oxidases have been isolated from over a dozen different organisms and fall into two major classes (1) monomeric form that contains only covalent flavin and (2) heterotetrameric (alpha, beta, gamma, delta) form that contain a covalent and noncovalent flavin, this entry represents the heterotetrameric form. | Short Name: | Sarcosine_oxidase_asu |
