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cytosine deaminase activity

Known as: cytosine aminohydrolase activity, isocytosine deaminase activity 
Catalysis of the reaction: cytosine + H2O = uracil + NH3. [EC:3.5.4.1]
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2017
2017
[Cloning, expression and activity identification of human innate immune protein apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme catalytic subunit 3A (APOBEC3A)].
Objective To construct the expression vector of apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme catalytic subunit 3A (APOBEC3A), express… 
2013
2013
Parallel stranded DNA stabilized with internal sugar cross-links: synthesis and click ligation of oligonucleotides containing 2'-propargylated isoguanosine.
Internal sugar cross-links were introduced for the first time into oligonucleotides with parallel chain orientation by click… 
2013
2013
Cytosine-to-Uracil Deamination by SssI DNA Methyltransferase
The prokaryotic DNA(cytosine-5)methyltransferase M.SssI shares the specificity of eukaryotic DNA methyltransferases (CG) and is… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
The Restriction of Zoonotic PERV Transmission by Human APOBEC3G
The human APOBEC3G protein is an innate anti-viral factor that can dominantly inhibit the replication of some endogenous and… 
2007
2007
Strong Enhancement of Recombinant Cytosine Deaminase Activity in Bifidobacterium longum for Tumor-Targeting Enzyme/Prodrug Therapy
In our previous studies, a strain of the nonpathogenic, anaerobic, intestinal bacterium, Bifidobacterium longum (B. longum), was… 
1997
1997
Use of pyrimidine pathway to produce mutant plants that fail to respond to wound induction
To understand how proteinase inhibitor genes, as a part of plant defense system, are activated following wounding, we have… 
Review
1994
Review
1994
Proton and charge circulation through substrate symports in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: non-classical behaviour of the cytosine symport.
A yeast strain lacking cytosine deaminase activity and over-expressing the cytosine proton symport has been used to study three… 
1985
1985
Monocyclic pteridine analogues. Inhibition of Escherichia coli dihydropteroate synthase by 6-amino-5-nitrosoisocytosines.
A variety of 5,6-disubstituted isocytosine derivatives were evaluated in vitro as inhibitors of dihydropteroate synthase from… 
1978
1978
Deoxycytidine kinase and cytosine nucleoside deaminase activities in synchronized cultures of normal rat kidney cells.
Previous work has suggested that 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine 5'-triphosphate is the active metabolite of 1-beta-D… 
1973
1973
Hydroxyphenylazopyrimidines: characterization of the active forms and their inhibitory action on a DNA polymerase from Bacillus subtilis.
The active forms of 6-(p-hydroxyphenylazo)-uracil and 6-(p-hydroxyphenylazo)-isocytosine were isolated and identified as their… 
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