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GO:0016840: carbon-nitrogen lyase activity (Molecular function)

"Catalysis of the release of ammonia or one of its derivatives, with the formation of a double bond or ring. Enzymes with this activity may catalyze the actual elimination of the ammonia, amine or amide, e.g. CH-CH(-NH-R) = C=CH- + NH2-R. Others, however, catalyze elimination of another component, e.g. water, which is followed by spontaneous reactions that lead to breakage of the C-N bond, e.g. L-serine ammonia-lyase (EC:4.3.1.17), so that the overall reaction is C(-OH)-CH(-NH2) = CH2-CO- + NH3, i.e. an elimination with rearrangement. The sub-subclasses of EC:4.3 are the ammonia-lyases (EC:4.3.1), lyases acting on amides, amidines, etc. (EC:4.3.2), the amine-lyases (EC:4.3.3), and other carbon-nitrogen lyases (EC:4.3.99)." [EC:4.3.-.-]


There are 2971 sequences with this label.

Enriched clusters
Name Species % in cluster p-value corrected p-value action
Cluster_122 Cyanophora paradoxa 1.45 % 0.011127 0.039658
Cluster_88 Chlorella vulgaris 1.37 % 0.008 0.01647
Cluster_69 Chromochloris zofingiensis 2.27 % 0.011404 0.046145
Cluster_175 Emiliania huxleyi 3.03 % 0.000157 0.004636
Cluster_289 Emiliania huxleyi 1.67 % 0.016988 0.049287
Cluster_682 Emiliania huxleyi 50.0 % 0.000571 0.001926
Cluster_643 Emiliania huxleyi 100.0 % 0.0 0.0
Cluster_94 Micromonas pusilla 2.04 % 0.009546 0.04415
Cluster_121 Seminavis robusta 1.64 % 0.006454 0.043024
Sequences (2971) (download table)

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