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arylformamidase activity

Known as: formylkynureninase activity, kynurenine formamidase activity, formylase activity 
Catalysis of the reaction: N-formyl-L-kynurenine + H2O = formate + L-kynurenine. [EC:3.5.1.9]
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formamidase II

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2016
2016
A short history of heme dioxygenases: rise, fall and rise again
  • E. Raven
  • JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
  • 2016
  • Corpus ID: 254077530
It is well established that there are two different classes of enzymes—tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO) and indoleamine 2,3… 
2016
2016
Identification of an evolutionary conserved structural loop that is required for the enzymatic and biological function of tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase
The enzyme TDO (tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase; TDO-2 in Caenorhabditis elegans) is a potential therapeutic target to cancer but is… 
2009
2009
Biochemical and Spectroscopic Characterization of Tryptophan Oxygenation: Tryptophan 2, 3-Dioxygenase and Maug
  • R. Fu
  • 2009
  • Corpus ID: 92709465
TDO utilizes b-type heme as a cofactor to activate dioxygen and insert two oxygen atoms into free L-tryptophan. We revealed two… 
2009
2009
Enzymatic and mechanistic studies into Tryptophan 2,3-Dioxygenase
Tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO) from Xanthomonas campestris (xcTDO) is a highly specific heme-containing enzyme from a small… 
1993
1993
Localization of the human indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) gene to the pericentromeric region of human chromosome 8.
Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) is the first enzyme in the catabolic pathway for tryptophan. This extrahepatic enzyme differs… 
1981
1981
A response to a letter from David Perkins concerning the question of whether nt mutants involve tryptophan pyrrolase
A response to a letter from David Perkins concerning the question of whether nt mutants involve tryptophan pyrrolase This… 
1979
1979
Multiple forms of chicken kynurenine formamidase.
1978
1978
A new substrate for formylkynurenine formamidase: N',N alpha-diformylkynurenine.
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