EC 3.5.4.1: Cytosine deaminase
Reaction catalysed:
Cytosine + H(2)O = uracil + NH(3)
Systematic name:
Cytosine aminohydrolase
Alternative Name(s):
- Cytosine aminohydrolase
- Isocytosine deaminase
GO terms
Biochemical function:
- obsolete 5-fluorocytosine deaminase activity
- metal ion binding
- deaminase activity
- hydrolase activity, acting on carbon-nitrogen (but not peptide) bonds, in cyclic amidines
- hydrolase activity
- diaminohydroxyphosphoribosylaminopyrimidine deaminase activity
- zinc ion binding
- cytosine deaminase activity
- catalytic activity