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Literature summary for 3.5.1.9 extracted from

  • Bailey, C.B.; Wagner, C.
    Kynurenine formamidase. Purification and characterization of the adult chicken liver enzyme and immunochemical analyses of the enzyme of developing chicken (1974), J. Biol. Chem., 249, 4439-4444.
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General Stability

General Stability Organism
sensitive to repeated freezing and thawing Gallus gallus

Inhibitors

Inhibitors Comment Organism Structure
Ag+ complete inhibition at 0.1 mM Gallus gallus
Cu2+ 21% inhibition at 0.1 mM Gallus gallus
Hg2+ 57% inhibition at 0.1 mM Gallus gallus
p-nitrophenyldiethyl phosphoric acid 92% inhibition at 10 mM Gallus gallus
phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride complete inhibition at 1 mM Gallus gallus
Urea 75% inhibition at 1 M Gallus gallus

KM Value [mM]

KM Value [mM] KM Value Maximum [mM] Substrate Comment Organism Structure
0.14
-
N-formyl-L-kynurenine
-
Gallus gallus

Molecular Weight [Da]

Molecular Weight [Da] Molecular Weight Maximum [Da] Comment Organism
30000
-
2 * 30000, SDS-PAGE Gallus gallus
59000
-
gel filtration Gallus gallus

Natural Substrates/ Products (Substrates)

Natural Substrates Organism Comment (Nat. Sub.) Natural Products Comment (Nat. Pro.) Rev. Reac.
N-formyl-L-kynurenine + H2O Gallus gallus
-
L-kynurenine + formate
-
?

Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Gallus gallus
-
-
-

Purification (Commentary)

Purification (Comment) Organism
to homogeneity, chromatography techniques, preparative disc gel electrophoresis Gallus gallus

Source Tissue

Source Tissue Comment Organism Textmining
liver
-
Gallus gallus
-

Specific Activity [micromol/min/mg]

Specific Activity Minimum [µmol/min/mg] Specific Activity Maximum [µmol/min/mg] Comment Organism
80.4
-
-
Gallus gallus

Storage Stability

Storage Stability Organism
5°C, no inactivation during prolonged storage Gallus gallus

Substrates and Products (Substrate)

Substrates Comment Substrates Organism Products Comment (Products) Rev. Reac.
N-formyl-L-kynurenine + H2O
-
Gallus gallus L-kynurenine + formate
-
?

Subunits

Subunits Comment Organism
dimer 2 * 30000, SDS-PAGE Gallus gallus

pH Optimum

pH Optimum Minimum pH Optimum Maximum Comment Organism
6.5
-
-
Gallus gallus

pH Range

pH Minimum pH Maximum Comment Organism
6 8.5 active within Gallus gallus