nit2 — Neurospora crassa

Summary

NCU00437 (nit2) on Neurospora crassa chromosome 3 encodes a nitrilase, an enzyme with arylacetonitrilase, nitrilase and hydro-lyase activities. The gene is associated with nitrogen catabolite repression, nitrate assimilation, nitrogen utilization, and catabolite repression, as well as glycogen metabolism, gibberellin biosynthesis, siderophore anabolism, iron transport, nuclear import, homologous recombination, hyphal growth, cell cycle, methylation, and . Studies of related genes in other species link the family to nitrilase activity (EC 3.5.5.1 and 3.5.5.5).