IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 3.5.3.2

Accepted name: guanidinoacetase

Reaction: guanidinoacetate + H2O = glycine + urea

Other name(s): glycocyaminase

Systematic name: guanidinoacetate amidinohydrolase

Comments: Requires Mn2+.

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, Metacyc, CAS registry number: 9024-92-4

References:

1. Roche, J., Lacombe, G. and Girard, H. Sur la spécificité de certaines déguanidases bactériennes génératrices d'urée et sur l'argininedihydrolase. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 6 (1950) 210-216.

2. Yorifuji, T., Tamai, H. and Usami, H. Purification, crystallization and properties of Mn2+ dependent guanidoacetate amidinohydrolase from a Pseudomonas. Agric. Biol. Chem. 41 (1977) 959-966.

[EC 3.5.3.2 created 1961]


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