Cytosolic arylformamidase (AFMID) catalyzes the hydrolysis of formylkynurenine to yield formate and L-kynurenine. Human AFMID has been identified only as an open reading frame; its activity is inferred from that of its well-characterized mouse homologue (Pabarcus and Casida 2002).
Casida, JE, Pabarcus, MK
arylformamidase activity of AFMID [cytosol]
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