| Type: | Family | Name: | Urease, beta subunit |
| Description: | Urease () is a nickel-binding enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of urea to carbon dioxide and ammonia []:Urea + H2O = CO2+ 2 NH3Urease is mainly found in plant seeds and microorganisms. Historically, it was the first enzyme to be crystallised, and the structure of the urease complex has been solved []. In plants, urease is a hexamer of identical chains. In bacteria it consists of either two or three different subunits (alpha, beta and gamma).This entry represents the urease beta subunit, which does not appear to take part in the catalytic mechanism. In Helicobacter pylori, the gamma and beta subunits are fused and known (confusingly) as the alpha subunit. | Short Name: | Urease_beta |
