Categories
  Encyclosphere.org ENCYCLOREADER
  supported by EncyclosphereKSF

Futalosine hydrolase

From Wikipedia - Reading time: 5 min

Futalosine hydrolase
Identifiers
EC no.3.2.2.26
Databases
IntEnzIntEnz view
BRENDABRENDA entry
ExPASyNiceZyme view
KEGGKEGG entry
MetaCycmetabolic pathway
PRIAMprofile
PDB structuresRCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum
Search
PMCarticles
PubMedarticles
NCBIproteins

Futalosine hydrolase (EC 3.2.2.26, futalosine nucleosidase, MqnB) is an enzyme with systematic name futalosine ribohydrolase.[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

futalosine + H2O dehypoxanthine futalosine + hypoxanthine

This enzyme catalyses the second step of menaquinone biosynthesis.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Hiratsuka T, Furihata K, Ishikawa J, Yamashita H, Itoh N, Seto H, Dairi T (September 2008). "An alternative menaquinone biosynthetic pathway operating in microorganisms". Science. 321 (5896): 1670–3. doi:10.1126/science.1160446. PMID 18801996.
[edit]

Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futalosine_hydrolase
4 views |
Download as ZWI file
Encyclosphere.org EncycloReader is supported by the EncyclosphereKSF