EC 3 - Hydrolases
EC 3.5 - Acting on carbon-nitrogen bonds, other than peptide bonds
EC 3.5.1 - In linear amides
EC 3.5.1.54 - Allophanate hydrolase
IntEnz Enzyme Nomenclature
EC 3.5.1.54
Names
AtzF
TrzF
Reaction
- urea-1-carboxylate + H2O = 2 CO2 + 2 NH3
Comments:
Along with EC 3.5.2.15 (cyanuric acid amidohydrolase) and EC 3.5.1.84 (biuret amidohydrolase), this enzyme forms part of the cyanuric-acid metabolism pathway, which degrades s-triazide herbicides, such as atrazine [2-chloro-4-(ethylamino)-6-(isopropylamino)-1,3,5-triazine], in bacteria. The yeast enzyme (but not that from green algae) also catalyses the reaction of EC 6.3.4.6 urea carboxylase, thus bringing about the hydrolysis of urea to CO2 and NH3 in the presence of ATP and bicarbonate. The enzyme from Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP has a narrow substrate specificity, being unable to use the structurally analogous compounds urea, hydroxyurea or methylcarbamate as substrate [6].
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References
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Purification and properties of the allophanate hydrolase from Chlamydomonas reinhardii.Biochim. Biophys. Acta 714 : 486-491 (1982).
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Urea amidolyase. I. Properties of the enzyme from Candida utilis.J. Biol. Chem. 247 : 4107-4113 (1972). [PMID: 4556303]
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Urea carboxylase and allophanate hydrolase are components of a multifunctional protein in yeast.J. Biol. Chem. 257 : 9119-9127 (1982). [PMID: 6124544]
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Allophanate hydrolase of Oleomonas sagaranensis involved in an ATP-dependent degradation pathway specific to urea.FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 245 : 61-65 (2005). [PMID: 15796980]
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Allophanate hydrolase, not urease, functions in bacterial cyanuric acid metabolism.Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71 : 4437-4445 (2005). [PMID: 16085834]
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Purification and characterization of allophanate hydrolase (AtzF) from Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP.J. Bacteriol. 187 : 3731-3738 (2005). [PMID: 15901697]
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Purification and characterization of TrzF: biuret hydrolysis by allophanate hydrolase supports growth.Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72 : 2491-2495 (2006). [PMID: 16597948]
[EC 3.5.1.54 created 1986, modified 2008]