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SUBMITTER: Zhao J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5770610 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhao Jing J Zhu Li L Fan Chen C Wu Yi Y Xiang Song S
Bioscience reports 20180117 1
Urea is the degradation product of a wide range of nitrogen containing bio-molecules. Urea amidolyase (UA) catalyzes the conversion of urea to ammonium, the essential first step in utilizing urea as a nitrogen source. It is widely distributed in fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms, and plays an important role in nitrogen recycling in the biosphere. UA is composed of urea carboxylase (UC) and allophanate hydrolase (AH) domains, which catalyze sequential reactions. In some organisms UC and AH ...[more]