Protein Information

Name NIT1
Synonyms NIT 1; NIT1; Nitrilase 1; Nitrilase homolog 1; Nitrilase 1s; Nitrilase homolog 1s

Compound Information

Name IAA
CAS

Reference List

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11525507 Vorwerk S, Biernacki S, Hillebrand H, Janzik I, Muller A, Weiler EW, Piotrowski M: Enzymatic characterization of the recombinant Arabidopsis thaliana nitrilase subfamily encoded by the NIT2/NIT1/NIT3-gene cluster. Planta. 2001 Mar;212(4):508-16.

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9368415 Normanly J, Grisafi P, Fink GR, Bartel B: Arabidopsis mutants resistant to the auxin effects of indole-3-acetonitrile are defective in the nitrilase encoded by the NIT1 gene. Plant Cell. 1997 Oct;9(10):1781-90.

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11089910 Dohmoto M, Tsunoda H, Isaji G, Chiba R, Yamaguchi K: Genes encoding nitrilase-like proteins from tobacco. DNA Res. 2000 Oct 31;7(5):283-9.


Arabidopsis thaliana genome has four nitrilase genes (NIT1, NIT2, NIT3 and NIT4).
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11967096 Kutz A, Muller A, Hennig P, Kaiser WM, Piotrowski M, Weiler EW: A role for nitrilase 3 in the regulation of root morphology in sulphur-starving Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 2002 Apr;30(1):95-106.


Arabidopsis thaliana expresses four nitrilases, three of which (NIT1, NIT2 and NIT3) are able to convert indole-3-acetonitrile to indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), the plant growth hormone, while the isozyme NIT4 is a beta-cyano-l-alanine hydratase/nitrilase.
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10574458 Dohmoto M, Sano J, Tsunoda H, Yamaguchi K: Structural analysis of the TNIT4 genes encoding nitrilase-like protein from tobacco. DNA Res. 1999 Oct 29;6(5):313-7.


The positions of the exon-intron splicing junctions in Arabidopsis NIT1 to NIT3 are completely conserved in TNIT4A.
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