The catechol dioxygenases are bacterial iron-containing enzymes that catalyze the oxidative cleavage a catechols; these enzymes serve as a component of nature's mechanism for cleaving aromatic compounds in the environment. From the "State of the Art Symposium: Bioinorganic Chemistry", held at the ACS meeting, Miami, 1985.
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Lawrence Que (1985) studied this question.