An unexpected vestigial protein complex reveals the evolutionary origins of ans-triazine catabolic enzyme.
Esquirol, L., Peat, T.S., Wilding, M., Liu, J.W., French, N.G., Hartley, C.J., Onagi, H., Nebl, T., Easton, C.J., Newman, J., Scott, C.(2018) J Biol Chem 293: 7880-7891
- PubMed: 29523689 
- DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.001996
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
6C62, 6C6G - PubMed Abstract: 
Cyanuric acid is a metabolic intermediate of s -triazines, such as atrazine (a common herbicide) and melamine (used in resins and plastics). Cyanuric acid is mineralized to ammonia and carbon dioxide by the soil bacterium Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP via three hydrolytic enzymes (AtzD, AtzE, and AtzF) ...