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Accession
GO:0009034
Name
tryptophanase activity
Ontology
molecular_function
Synonyms
L-tryptophan indole-lyase (deaminating) activity, L-tryptophan indole-lyase (deaminating; pyruvate forming) activity, L-tryptophan indole-lyase activity, L-tryptophanase activity, TNase activity, tryptophan catabolic process, using tryptophanase, tryptophan catabolism, using tryptophanase
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
Catalysis of the reaction: L-tryptophan + H2O = indole + NH4 + pyruvate. Source: RHEA:19553
Comment
Note that this term has a MetaCyc pathway reference as the pathway only has a single step.
History
See term history for GO:0009034 at QuickGO
Chem. react.
has participant L-tryptophan zwitterion
has participant 1H-indole
has participant ammonium
has participant water
has participant pyruvate
Subset
None
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Parents of tryptophanase activity (GO:0009034)
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tryptophanase activity [RO:0000057 relation] RO:0000057  L-tryptophan zwitterion (CHEBI:57912)
tryptophanase activity [RO:0000057 relation] RO:0000057  1H-indole (CHEBI:16881)
tryptophanase activity [RO:0000057 relation] RO:0000057  ammonium (CHEBI:28938)
tryptophanase activity [is_a relation] is_a  carbon-carbon lyase activity (GO:0016830)
tryptophanase activity [RO:0000057 relation] RO:0000057  water (CHEBI:15377)
tryptophanase activity [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  tryptophan catabolic process (GO:0006569)
tryptophanase activity [RO:0000057 relation] RO:0000057  pyruvate (CHEBI:15361)

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EC
4.1.99.1
KEGG_REACTION
R00673
MetaCyc
TRYPTOPHAN-RXN
TRYPDEG-PWY
RHEA
19553