encodes a nitrilase isomer. The purified enzyme shows a strong substrate specificity for beta-cyano-L-alanine, a intermediate product of the cyanide detoxification pathway.
Computational Description
nitrilase 4 (NIT4); CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Nitrilase/cyanide hydratase and apolipoprotein N-acyltransferase (InterPro:IPR003010), Nitrilase/cyanide hydratase, conserved site (InterPro:IPR000132); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: nitrilase 3 (TAIR:AT3G44320.1); Has 7653 Blast hits to 7575 proteins in 1747 species: Archae - 162; Bacteria - 5078; Metazoa - 407; Fungi - 539; Plants - 330; Viruses - 11; Other Eukaryotes - 1126 (source: NCBI BLink).