Histidine ammonia-lyase

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histidine ammonia-lyase
Identifiers
Symbol HAL
Alt. Symbols HIS
Entrez 3034
HUGO 4806
OMIM 609457
RefSeq NM_002108
UniProt P42357
Other data
EC number 4.3.1.3
Locus Chr. 12 q22-q24.1

Histidine ammonia-lyase (or histidase) is an enzyme which converts histidine into ammonia and urocanic acid.

[edit] Pathology

Mutations in the gene for histidase are associated with histidinemia and urocanic aciduria.

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