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Aliases | IMPDH2 , IMPD2, IMPDH-II, IMP (inosine 5'-monophosphate) dehydrogenase 2, inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
External IDs | OMIM: 146691; MGI: 109367; HomoloGene: 48919; GeneCards: IMPDH2; OMA:IMPDH2 - orthologs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Inosine-5'-monophosphate dehydrogenase 2, also known as IMP dehydrogenase 2, is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the IMPDH2 gene. [5] [6] [7]
IMP dehydrogenase 2 is the rate-limiting enzyme in the de novo guanine nucleotide biosynthesis. It is thus involved in maintaining cellular guanine deoxy- and ribonucleotide pools needed for DNA and RNA synthesis. IMPDH2 catalyzes the NAD-dependent oxidation of inosine-5'-monophosphate into xanthine-5'-monophosphate, which is then converted into guanosine-5'-monophosphate. [5] IMPDH2 has been identified as an intracellular target of the natural product sanglifehrin A. [8]
This gene is up-regulated in some neoplasms, suggesting it may play a role in malignant transformation. [5]
This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.