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- * Uricase signature *
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- Uricase (EC 1.7.3.3) (urate oxidase) [1] is the peroxisomal enzyme responsible
- for the degradation of urate into allantoin. Some species, like primates and
- birds, have lost the gene for uricase and are therefore unable to degrade
- urate.
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- Uricase is a protein of 300 to 400 amino acids, its sequence is well conserved
- and we have used, as a signature pattern, a highly conserved region located
- in the central part of the sequence.
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- -Consensus pattern: V-L-K-[ST]-T-[NQ]-S-x-F-x(2)-F-x(2)-D
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
- -Last update: December 1992 / Pattern and text revised.
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- [ 1] Motojima K., Kanaya S., Goto S.
- J. Biol. Chem. 263:16677-16681(1988).
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