Histidine decarboxylase

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histidine decarboxylase
Identifiers
Symbol HDC
Entrez 3067
HUGO 4855
OMIM 142704
RefSeq NM_002112
UniProt P19113
Other data
EC number 4.1.1.22
Locus Chr. 15 q21-q22

Histidine decarboxylase (HDC) is the enzyme that catalyzes the reaction which produces histamine from histidine as follows:

C6H9N3O2C5H9N3 + CO2

Conversion of histidine to histamine by histidine decarboxylase
Conversion of histidine to histamine by histidine decarboxylase

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