As it hydrolyzes a guanidino group within agmatine and also contains signature amino acid residues that act as ligand binding sites for the potential Mn(++) cofactor, agmatinase is classified as a member of the arginase superfamily (Morris, 2003).
Mistry, SK, Burwell, TJ, Chambers, RM, Rudolph-Owen, L, Spaltmann, F, Cook, WJ, Morris SM, Jr
Iyer, RK, Kim, HK, Tsoa, RW, Grody, WW, Cederbaum, SD
agmatinase activity of AGMAT(1-?) [mitochondrion]
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