Chlorite dismutase
Chlorite dismutase, also known as Chlorite O2-lyase, is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
Reactions that generate oxygen molecules are exceedingly rare in biology and difficult to mimic synthetically. Perchlorate-respiring bacteria enzymatically detoxify chlorite, the end product of the perchlorate respiratory pathway, by converting it to dioxygen and chloride. Chlorite dismutase is a hemoprotein, but it bears no structural or sequence relationships with known peroxidases or other heme proteins, and is part of a large family of proteins with more than one biochemical function.