Reaction: carboxyguanidine + H2O = urea-1-carboxylate + NH3
Glossary: urea-1-carboxylate = allophanate
Other name(s): cgdA (gene name); cgdB (gene name)
Systematic name: carboxyguanidine iminohydrolase
Comments: The enzyme, characterized from the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae, participates in the degradation of guanidine.
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References:
1. Schneider, N.O., Tassoulas, L.J., Zeng, D., Laseke, A.J., Reiter, N.J., Wackett, L.P. and Maurice, M.S. Solving the conundrum: widespread proteins annotated for urea metabolism in bacteria are carboxyguanidine deiminases mediating nitrogen assimilation from guanidine. Biochemistry 59 (2020) 3258-3270. [PMID: 32786413]