Nitrilase

nitrilase 1
Crystallographic structure of Pyrococcus abyssi nitrilase.^[1]
Identifiers
Symbol	NIT1
Entrez	4817
HUGO	7828
OMIM	604618
PDB	3IVZ
RefSeq	NM_005600
UniProt	Q86X76
Other data
Locus	Chr. 1 pter-qter

Nitrilase enzymes (nitrile aminohydrolase; EC 3.5.5.1) catalyse the hydrolysis of nitriles to carboxylic acids and ammonia, without the formation of "free" amide intermediates. Nitrilases are involved in natural product biosynthesis and post translational modifications in plants, animals, fungi and certain prokaryotes. Nitrilases can also be used as catalysts in preparative organic chemistry. Among others, nitrilases have been used for the resolution of racemic mixtures. Nitrilase should not be confused with nitrile hydratase (nitrile hydro-lyase; EC 4.2.1.84) which hydrolyses nitriles to amides. Nitrile hydratases are almost invariably co-expressed with an amidase, which converts the amide to the carboxylic acid, consequently it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish nitrilase activity from nitrile hydratase plus amidase activity.

References

↑ PDB: 3IVZ; Raczynska JE, Vorgias CE, Antranikian G, Rypniewski W (February 2011). "Crystallographic analysis of a thermoactive nitrilase". Journal of Structural Biology. 173 (2): 294–302. doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2010.11.017. PMID 21095228.

External links

nitrilase at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Hydrolases: carbon-nitrogen non-peptide (EC 3.5)

3.5.1: Linear amides / Amidohydrolases	Asparaginase Glutaminase Urease Biotinidase Aspartoacylase Ceramidase Aspartylglucosaminidase Fatty acid amide hydrolase Histone deacetylase Sirtuin

3.5.2: Cyclic amides/ Amidohydrolases	Barbiturase Beta-lactamase

3.5.3: Linear amidines/ Ureohydrolases	Arginase Agmatinase Protein-arginine deiminase

3.5.4: Cyclic amidines/ Aminohydrolases	Guanine deaminase Adenosine deaminase AMP deaminase Inosine monophosphate synthase DCMP deaminase GTP cyclohydrolase I Cytidine deaminase AICDA Activation-induced cytidine deaminase

3.5.5: Nitriles/ Aminohydrolases	Nitrilase

3.5.99: Other	Riboflavinase Thiaminase II

Enzymes

Activity	Active site Binding site Catalytic triad Oxyanion hole Enzyme promiscuity Catalytically perfect enzyme Coenzyme Cofactor Enzyme catalysis Enzyme kinetics Lineweaver–Burk plot Michaelis–Menten kinetics

Regulation	Allosteric regulation Cooperativity Enzyme inhibitor

Classification	EC number Enzyme superfamily Enzyme family List of enzymes

Types	EC1 Oxidoreductases (list) EC2 Transferases (list) EC3 Hydrolases (list) EC4 Lyases (list) EC5 Isomerases (list) EC6 Ligases (list)

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