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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.
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.
-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.
[ 1] Motojima K., Kanaya S., Goto S.
J. Biol. Chem. 263:16677-16681(1988).