CPLM 1.0 - Compendium of Protein Lysine Modification
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CPLM ID CPLM-014561
UniProt Accession
Genbank Protein ID
Genbank Nucleotide ID
Protein Name
 Kynurenine formamidase 
Protein Synonyms/Alias
 KFA; KFase; Arylformamidase; N-formylkynurenine formamidase; FKF 
Gene Name
 AFMID 
Gene Synonyms/Alias
  
Created Date
 July 27, 2013 
Organism
 Homo sapiens (Human) 
NCBI Taxa ID
 9606 
Lysine Modification
Position
Peptide
Type
References
12SGVGFPSKVPWKKMSubiquitination[1]
16FPSKVPWKKMSAEELubiquitination[1]
17PSKVPWKKMSAEELEubiquitination[1]
Reference
 [1] Refined preparation and use of anti-diglycine remnant (K-ε-GG) antibody enables routine quantification of 10,000s of ubiquitination sites in single proteomics experiments.
 Udeshi ND, Svinkina T, Mertins P, Kuhn E, Mani DR, Qiao JW, Carr SA.
 Mol Cell Proteomics. 2013 Mar;12(3):825-31. [PMID: 23266961
Functional Description
 Catalyzes the hydrolysis of N-formyl-L-kynurenine to L- kynurenine, the second step in the kynurenine pathway of tryptophan degradation. Kynurenine may be further oxidized to nicotinic acid, NAD(H) and NADP(H). Required for elimination of toxic metabolites (By similarity). 
Sequence Annotation
 MOTIF 95 99 HGGXW.
 ACT_SITE 164 164 Nucleophile (By similarity).
 ACT_SITE 247 247 By similarity.
 ACT_SITE 279 279 By similarity.  
Keyword
 Alternative splicing; Complete proteome; Cytoplasm; Hydrolase; Nucleus; Reference proteome; Tryptophan catabolism. 
Sequence Source
 UniProt (SWISSPROT/TrEMBL); GenBank; EMBL 
Protein Length
 303 AA 
Protein Sequence
MMDVSGVGFP SKVPWKKMSA EELENQYCPS RWVVRLGAEE ALRTYSQIGI EATTRARATR 60
KSLLHVPYGD GEGEKVDIYF PDESSEALPF FLFFHGGYWQ SGSKDESAFM VHPLTAQGVA 120
VVIVAYGIAP KGTLDHMVDQ VTRSVAFVQK RYPSNKGIYL CGHSAGAHLA AMMLLADWTK 180
HGVTPNLRGF FLVSGVFDLE PIVYTSQNVA LQLTLEDAQR NSPQLKVAQA QPVDPTCRVL 240
VVVGQFDSPE FHRQSWEFYQ VLPVQTLCQG EWKASFEELH DVDHFEIVEN LTQKDNVLTQ 300
IILKTIFQ 308 
Gene Ontology
 GO:0005829; C:cytosol; IEA:UniProtKB-SubCell.
 GO:0005634; C:nucleus; IEA:UniProtKB-SubCell.
 GO:0004061; F:arylformamidase activity; IEA:HAMAP.
 GO:0034354; P:de novo NAD biosynthetic process from tryptophan; IEA:HAMAP.
 GO:0006569; P:tryptophan catabolic process; TAS:Reactome.
 GO:0019441; P:tryptophan catabolic process to kynurenine; IEA:UniProtKB-UniPathway. 
Interpro
 IPR013094; AB_hydrolase_3.
 IPR027519; KFase. 
Pfam
 PF07859; Abhydrolase_3 
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