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GO:0016840: carbon-nitrogen lyase activity (Molecular function)

"Catalysis of the release of ammonia or one of its derivatives, with the formation of a double bond or ring. Enzymes with this activity may catalyze the actual elimination of the ammonia, amine or amide, e.g. CH-CH(-NH-R) = C=CH- + NH2-R. Others, however, catalyze elimination of another component, e.g. water, which is followed by spontaneous reactions that lead to breakage of the C-N bond, e.g. L-serine ammonia-lyase (EC:4.3.1.17), so that the overall reaction is C(-OH)-CH(-NH2) = CH2-CO- + NH3, i.e. an elimination with rearrangement. The sub-subclasses of EC:4.3 are the ammonia-lyases (EC:4.3.1), lyases acting on amides, amidines, etc. (EC:4.3.2), the amine-lyases (EC:4.3.3), and other carbon-nitrogen lyases (EC:4.3.99)." [EC:4.3.-.-]


There are 1187 sequences with this label.

Enriched clusters
Name Species % in cluster p-value corrected p-value action
Cluster_48 Arabidopsis thaliana 1.12 % 0.008744 0.030936
Cluster_17 Arabidopsis thaliana 1.75 % 0.003687 0.022966
Cluster_32 Arabidopsis thaliana 0.91 % 0.013106 0.046847
Cluster_37 Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 1.32 % 0.017027 0.035588
Cluster_100 Marchantia polymorpha 1.41 % 0.018148 0.041481
Cluster_165 Zygnema circumcarinatum 1.82 % 0.01086 0.043255
Sequences (1187) (download table)

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