Reviewed, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot A1VRN9 (KYNB_POLNA)

Names and origin

Protein names

Recommended name:
    Kynurenine formamidase
      Short name=KFA
    EC=3.5.1.9
Alternative name(s):
    N-formylkynurenine formamidase

Gene names

Name:	kynB
Ordered Locus Names:	Pnap_3018

Organism

Polaromonas naphthalenivorans (strain CJ2) [Complete proteome] [HAMAP]

Taxonomic identifier

365044 [NCBI]

Taxonomic lineage

Bacteria › Proteobacteria › Betaproteobacteria › Burkholderiales › Comamonadaceae › Polaromonas

Protein attributes

Sequence length	223 AA.
Sequence status	Complete.
Sequence processing	The displayed sequence is not processed.
Protein existence	Inferred from homology.

General annotation (Comments)

Function	Catalyzes the hydrolysis of N-formyl-L-kynurenine to L-kynurenine By similarity.
Catalytic activity	N-formyl-L-kynurenine + H2O = formate + L-kynurenine.
Pathway	Amino-acid degradation; L-tryptophan degradation via kynurenine pathway; L-kynurenine from L-tryptophan: step 2/2.
Sequence similarities	Belongs to the kynB family.

Ontologies

Keywords
Biological process	Tryptophan catabolism
Molecular function	Hydrolase
Technical term	Complete proteome
Gene Ontology (GO)
Biological process	anthranilate metabolic process Inferred from sequence or structural similarity. Source: UniProtKB tryptophan catabolic process to kynurenine Inferred from sequence or structural similarity. Source: UniProtKB
Molecular function	arylformamidase activity Inferred from sequence or structural similarity. Source: UniProtKB
Complete GO annotation...

Sequence annotation (Features)

	Feature key	Position(s)	Length	Description	Graphical view	Feature identifier
Molecule processing
	Chain	1 – 223	223	Kynurenine formamidase		PRO_0000362126

Sequences

	Sequence		Length	Mass (Da)
	A1VRN9-1 [UniParc]. Last modified February 6, 2007. Version 1. Checksum: 4F501DDF1F88186F	FASTA	223	23,917
	10 20 30 40 50 60 MTEPAAHFAS HAAAARTLRI WDISPPLDER SEVFPGDTAY SQELHFSLSP GCPVNVNRIT 70 80 90 100 110 120 LSPHTGAHAD APLHYASGEA AIGAVDLQPY LGPCRVIHCL DCGPLVEPAH IAHALENLPP 130 140 150 160 170 180 RVLLRTSRTA SQSWASFTAI APATLALLAT KNIVLIGIDT PSVDPAASQN LPSHQQLLRH 190 200 210 220 GLRVLENLVL DDVPEGDYEL IALPLKLMRA DASPVRAILR ELS

References

[1]

"Complete sequence of chromosome 1 of Polaromonas naphthalenivorans CJ2." Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina del Rio T., Hammon N., Israni S., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Sims D.R., Brettin T., Bruce D., Han C., Tapia R., Brainard J., Schmutz J. , Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Kim E., Madsen E.L., Richardson P. Submitted (DEC-2006) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases Cited for: NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE GENOMIC DNA].

Cross-references

Sequence databases
EMBLGenBankDDBJ	CP000529 Genomic DNA. Translation: ABM38317.1.
RefSeq	YP_983238.1.
3D structure databases
ModBase	Search...
Protein-protein interaction databases
STRING	A1VRN9.
Genome annotation databases
GeneID	4687813.
GenomeReviews	Gene locus Pnap_3018 in contig CP000529_GR.
KEGG	pna:Pnap_3018.
Organism-specific databases
CMR	Search...
Phylogenomic databases
OMA	WPGDTPF.
Family and domain databases
InterPro	IPR017484. Arylformamidase. IPR007325. Cyclase. [Graphical view]
Pfam	PF04199. Cyclase. 1 hit. [Graphical view]
TIGRFAMs	TIGR03035. trp_arylform. 1 hit.
ProtoNet	Search...

Entry information

Entry name

KYNB_POLNA

Accession

Primary (citable) accession number: A1VRN9

Entry history

Integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot:	February 10, 2009
Last sequence update:	February 6, 2007
Last modified:	November 3, 2009
This is version 16 of the entry and version 1 of the sequence. [Complete history]

Entry status

Reviewed (UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot)

Annotation project

HAMAP (High-quality Automated and Manual Annotation of microbial Proteomes)