[HTML][HTML] Ureases: Historical aspects, catalytic, and non-catalytic properties–A review

K Kappaun, AR Piovesan, CR Carlini… - Journal of advanced …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Urease (urea amidohydrolase, EC 3.5. 1.5) is a nickel-containing enzyme produced
by plants, fungi, and bacteria that catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea into ammonia and …

Ureases as multifunctional toxic proteins: A review

CR Carlini, R Ligabue-Braun - Toxicon, 2016 - Elsevier
Ureases are metalloenzymes that hydrolyze urea into ammonia and carbon dioxide. They
were the first enzymes to be crystallized and, with them, the notion that enzymes are proteins …

Could the Urease of the Gut Bacterium Proteus mirabilis Play a Role in the Altered Gut–Brain Talk Associated with Parkinson's Disease?

MVC Grahl, BS Andrade, APA Perin, GA Neves… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Intestinal dysbiosis seems to play a role in neurodegenerative pathologies. Parkinson's
disease (PD) patients have an altered gut microbiota. Moreover, mice treated orally with the …

High-resolution cryo-EM structure of urease from the pathogen Yersinia enterocolitica

RD Righetto, L Anton, R Adaixo, RP Jakob… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Urease converts urea into ammonia and carbon dioxide and makes urea available as a
nitrogen source for all forms of life except animals. In human bacterial pathogens, ureases …

[HTML][HTML] Antifungal properties of Canavalia ensiformis urease and derived peptides

M Postal, AHS Martinelli, AB Becker-Ritt… - Peptides, 2012 - Elsevier
Ureases (EC 3.5. 1.5) are metalloenzymes that hydrolyze urea into ammonia and CO2.
These proteins have insecticidal and fungicidal effects not related to their enzymatic activity …

[HTML][HTML] Central and peripheral neurotoxicity induced by the Jack Bean Urease (JBU) in Nauphoeta cinerea cockroaches

T Carrazoni, M de Avila Heberle, APA Perin… - Toxicology, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Ureases of Canavalia ensiformis are natural insecticides with a still
elusive entomotoxic mode of action. We have investigated the mechanisms involved in the …

Plant ureases and related peptides: understanding their entomotoxic properties

F Stanisçuaski, CR Carlini - Toxins, 2012 - mdpi.com
Recently, ureases were included in the arsenal of plant defense proteins, alongside many
other proteins with biotechnological potential such as insecticides. Isoforms of Canavalia …

3-to-1: unraveling structural transitions in ureases

R Ligabue-Braun, FC Andreis, H Verli, CR Carlini - Naturwissenschaften, 2013 - Springer
Ureases are nickel-dependent enzymes which catalyze the hydrolysis of urea to ammonia
and carbamate. Despite the apparent wealth of data on ureases, many crucial aspects …

One enzyme, many faces: urease is also canatoxin

CF Moro, FCS Nogueira, CGM Almeida… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Ureases catalyze the hydrolysis of urea into carbamate and ammonia. Well-conserved
proteins, most plant ureases are hexamers of a single chain subunit, like the most abundant …

Fungitoxic and insecticidal plant polypeptides

AB Becker‐Ritt, CR Carlini - Peptide Science, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract According to the World Bank and FAO, the population grows worldwide and the
poorest countries are expected to double their population within the next decades …