Functional characterization of a novel arachidonic acid 12S‐lipoxygenase in the halotolerant bacterium Myxococcus fulvus exhibiting complex social living patterns

Abstract Lipoxygenases are lipid peroxidizing enzymes, which frequently occur in higher plants and mammals. These enzymes are also expressed in lower multicellular organisms but here they are not widely distributed. In bacteria, lipoxygenases rarely occur and evaluation of the currently available bacterial genomes suggested that