EC 3.5.3.1: Arginase
Reaction catalysed:
L-arginine + H(2)O = L-ornithine + urea
Systematic name:
L-arginine amidinohydrolase
Alternative Name(s):
- Arginine amidinase
- Arginine transamidinase
- Canavanase
- L-arginase
GO terms
Biochemical function:
Biological process:
- negative regulation of T-helper 2 cell cytokine production
- positive regulation of neutrophil mediated killing of fungus
- negative regulation of type II interferon-mediated signaling pathway
- negative regulation of activated T cell proliferation
- innate immune response
- defense response to protozoan
- negative regulation of T cell proliferation
- arginine catabolic process to ornithine
- arginine catabolic process
- arginine metabolic process
- immune system process
- adaptive immune response
- urea cycle
Protein family (Pfam)
InterPro annotations
CATH domain