Term Information

Accession
GO:0050385
Name
ureidoglycolate lyase activity
Ontology
molecular_function
Synonyms
(S)-ureidoglycolate urea-lyase (glyoxylate-forming), (S)-ureidoglycolate urea-lyase activity, ureidoglycolase activity, ureidoglycolatase activity, ureidoglycolate hydrolase activity
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
Catalysis of the reaction: (S)-ureidoglycolate = glyoxylate + urea. Source: RHEA:11304, EC:4.3.2.3
Comment
Take care to annotate to the reaction, not simply by enzyme name. Note that the name "ureidoglycolate hydrolase" (listed as a synonym here) has variously been used to refer to two distinctly different enzymes. Both enzymes act on ureidoglycolate and produce glyoxylate, but the mechanism and reaction products are different. The "ureidoglycolate hydrolase" listed in the Enzyme commission (EC) is a ureidoglycolate amidohydrolase, releasing ammonia, (EC:3.5.3.19 ; GO:0004848). The "ureidoglycolate hydrolase" characterized in PMID:3915539 (published prior to the EC designation of EC:3.5.3.19) is a ureidoglycolate lyase, releasing urea (EC:4.3.2.3 ; GO:0050385). The inappropriate labelling of ureidoglycolate lyase as EC:3.5.3.19 has caused much confusion in the literature (see PMID:24107613). Take care to correctly annotate based on the reaction products, rather than name.
History
See term history for GO:0050385 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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ureidoglycolate lyase activity [is_a relation] is_a  amidine-lyase activity (GO:0016842)

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EC
4.3.2.3
KEGG_REACTION
R00776
MetaCyc
UREIDOGLYCOLATE-LYASE-RXN
RHEA
11304