| alpha-1,4-glucan lyase | <enzyme> Degrades alpha-1,4-glucan to produce 1,5-anhydrofructose; from seaweeds gracilariopsis lemaneiformis and gracilaria verrucosa; mw 111 kD; amino acid sequence has been determined Registry number: EC 4.2.2.- Synonym: alpha-1,4-glucan 4-lyase (26 Jun 1999) |
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| alpha-pinene oxide lyase | <enzyme> From nocardia sp. Strain p18.3; catalyses the cleavage of both rings of the bicyclic structure with the formation of 2-methyl-5-isopropylhexa-2,5-dienal Registry number: EC 4.1.2.- Synonym: alpha-pinene oxide lyase (decyclizing) (26 Jun 1999) |
| aminodeoxychorismate lyase | <enzyme> Catalyses the conversion of aminodeoxychorismate to paba and pyruvate Registry number: EC 4.1.3.- Synonym: enzyme x, folate biosynthesis, 4-amino-4-deoxychorismate pyruvate-lyase (26 Jun 1999) |
| argininosuccinate lyase | <enzyme> An enzyme of the urea cycle which splits argininosuccinate to fumarate plus arginine. Its absence leads to the metabolic disease argininosuccinic acidemia in man. Chemical name: N-(L-Argininosuccinate) arginine-lyase Registry number: EC 4.3.2.1 (12 Dec 1998) |
| aspartate ammonia-lyase | <enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses the conversion of aspartic acid to ammonia and fumaric acid in plants and some microorganisms. Chemical name: L-Aspartate ammonia-lyase Registry number: EC 4.3.1.1 (12 Dec 1998) |
| benzaldehyde lyase | <enzyme> Requires thiamine ppi; from pseudomonas fluorescens; cleaves the acycloin linkage of benzoin, producing 2 molecules of benzaldehyde; also acts on anisoin, forming anisaldehyde Registry number: EC 4.1.2.- Synonym: benzoin benzaldehyde lyase (26 Jun 1999) |
| carbonate hydro-lyase | carbonic anhydrase |
| carbon-phosphorus lyase | <enzyme> Found in bacteria which utilise alkyl and phenylphosphonic acids Registry number: EC 4.99.- Synonym: c-p lyase, carbon-phosphorus cleavage enzyme (26 Jun 1999) |
| mandelonitrile lyase | <enzyme> Catalyses the reversible condensation of hcn with aldehydes to form d-alpha-hydroxynitriles; contains fad Registry number: EC 4.1.2.10 Synonym: mandelonitrile benzaldehyde-lyase, oxynitrilase (26 Jun 1999) |
| gellan lyase | <enzyme> Cleaves beta-d-glucosyl-1-4-beta-d-glucuronosyl sequence in gellan Registry number: EC 4.2.2.- Synonym: gellanase (26 Jun 1999) |
| glucuronan lyase | <enzyme> Catalyses beta-elimination cleavage of acetylated and deacetylated (1->4)-beta-d-glucuronan Registry number: EC 4.2.2.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| pectin lyase | <enzyme> Catalyses elimination of 6-methyl-delta-4,5-galacturonate residues from pectin; brings about depolymerization of pectin; does not act on deesterified pectin Registry number: EC 4.2.2.10 Synonym: poly(methoxygalacturonide)lyase, protopectinase-r, ppase-r, pnla protein, pnla gene product, psx1 gene product, polymethoxygalacturonase (26 Jun 1999) |
| peptidylamidoglycolate lyase | <enzyme> Second step in the production of alpha-amidated peptides from their glycine-extended precursors; first step is EC 1.14.17.3 (amide synthetase) Registry number: EC 4.3.2.5 Synonym: pahgaa lyase, peptidyl-alpha-hydroxyglycine alpha amidating lyase, peptidylhydroxyglycine n-c lyase (26 Jun 1999) |
| chondroitin abc lyase | <enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses the eliminative degradation of polysaccharides containing 1,4-beta-d-hexosaminyl and 1,3-beta-d-glucuronosyl or 1,3-alpha-l-iduronosyl linkages to disaccharides containing 4-deoxy-beta-d-gluc-4-enuronosyl groups. (enzyme nomenclature, 1992) Chemical name: chondroitin ABC lyase Registry number: EC 4.2.2.4 (12 Dec 1998) |
| chorismate pyruvate-lyase | <enzyme> Forms 4-hydroxybenzoic acid for ubiquinone biosynthesis; chorismate pyruvate-lyase (amino-accepting) is anthranilate synthase Registry number: EC 4.1.3.- Synonym: ubic gene product, chorismate lyase (26 Jun 1999) |