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- Name help_outline 3-cyano-L-alanine Identifier CHEBI:77860 Charge 0 Formula C4H6N2O2 InChIKeyhelp_outline BXRLWGXPSRYJDZ-VKHMYHEASA-N SMILEShelp_outline [NH3+][C@@H](CC#N)C([O-])=O 2D coordinates Mol file for the small molecule Search links Involved in 3 reaction(s) Find molecules that contain or resemble this structure Find proteins in UniProtKB for this molecule
- Name help_outline H2O Identifier CHEBI:15377 (Beilstein: 3587155; CAS: 7732-18-5) help_outline Charge 0 Formula H2O InChIKeyhelp_outline XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N SMILEShelp_outline [H]O[H] 2D coordinates Mol file for the small molecule Search links Involved in 6,204 reaction(s) Find molecules that contain or resemble this structure Find proteins in UniProtKB for this molecule
- Name help_outline L-aspartate Identifier CHEBI:29991 Charge -1 Formula C4H6NO4 InChIKeyhelp_outline CKLJMWTZIZZHCS-REOHCLBHSA-M SMILEShelp_outline [NH3+][C@@H](CC([O-])=O)C([O-])=O 2D coordinates Mol file for the small molecule Search links Involved in 74 reaction(s) Find molecules that contain or resemble this structure Find proteins in UniProtKB for this molecule
- Name help_outline NH4+ Identifier CHEBI:28938 (CAS: 14798-03-9) help_outline Charge 1 Formula H4N InChIKeyhelp_outline QGZKDVFQNNGYKY-UHFFFAOYSA-O SMILEShelp_outline [H][N+]([H])([H])[H] 2D coordinates Mol file for the small molecule Search links Involved in 528 reaction(s) Find molecules that contain or resemble this structure Find proteins in UniProtKB for this molecule
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Cyanide metabolism in higher plants: cyanoalanine hydratase is a NIT4 homolog.
Piotrowski M., Volmer J.J.
Cyanoalanine hydratase (E.C. 4.2.1.65) is an enzyme involved in the cyanide detoxification pathway of higher plants and catalyzes the hydrolysis of beta-cyano-L-alanine to asparagine. We have isolated the enzyme from seedlings of blue lupine (Lupinus angustifolius) to obtain protein sequence infor ... >> More
Cyanoalanine hydratase (E.C. 4.2.1.65) is an enzyme involved in the cyanide detoxification pathway of higher plants and catalyzes the hydrolysis of beta-cyano-L-alanine to asparagine. We have isolated the enzyme from seedlings of blue lupine (Lupinus angustifolius) to obtain protein sequence information for molecular cloning. In contrast to earlier reports, extracts of blue lupine cotyledons were found also to contain cyanoalanine-nitrilase (E.C. 3.5.5.4) activity, resulting in aspartic acid production. Both activities co-elute during isolation of cyanoalanine hydratase and are co-precipitated by an antibody directed against Arabidopsis thaliana nitrilase 4 (NIT4). The isolated cyanoalanine hydratase was sequenced by nanospray-MS/MS and shown to be a homolog of Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotiana tabacum NIT4. Full-length cDNA sequences for two NIT4 homologs from blue lupine were obtained by PCR using degenerate primers and RACE-experiments. The recombinant LaNIT4 enzymes, like Arabidopsis NIT4, hydrolyze cyanoalanine to asparagine and aspartic acid but show a much higher cyanoalanine-hydratase activity. The two nitrilase genes displayed differential but overlapping expression. Taken together these data show that the so-called 'cyanoalanine hydratase' of plants is not a bacterial type nitrile hydratase enzyme but a nitrilase enzyme which can have a remarkably high nitrile-hydratase activity. << Less
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Published in: Yanase, H., Sakai, T., Tonomuro, K. (1983). "Purification, crystallization and some properties of beta-cyano-L-alanine-degrading enzyme in Pseudomonas sp. 13." Agric. Biol. Chem. 47:473-482. Multi-step reaction: RHEA:15385 and RHEA:21016