7-carboxy-7-deazaguanine synthase

7-carboxy-7-deazaguanine synthase
Identifiers
EC number 4.3.99.3
Databases
IntEnz IntEnz view
BRENDA BRENDA entry
ExPASy NiceZyme view
KEGG KEGG entry
MetaCyc metabolic pathway
PRIAM profile
PDB structures RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum

7-carboxy-7-deazaguanine synthase (EC 4.3.99.3, 7-carboxy-7-carbaguanine synthase, queE (gene)) is an enzyme with systematic name 6-carboxy-5,6,7,8-tetrahydropterin ammonia-lyase.[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

6-carboxy-5,6,7,8-tetrahydropterin 7-carboxy-7-carbaguanine + NH3

The enzyme is a member of the superfamily of S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent radical enzymes.

References

  1. McCarty, R.M.; Somogyi, A.; Lin, G.; Jacobsen, N.E.; Bandarian, V. (2009). "The deazapurine biosynthetic pathway revealed: in vitro enzymatic synthesis of preQ0 from guanosine 5-triphosphate in four steps". Biochemistry. 48: 3847–3852. doi:10.1021/bi900400e. PMID 19354300.

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