| Phosphomethylpyrimidine synthase | |||||||||
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 Phosphomethylpyrimidine synthase dimer, Arabidopsis thaliana | |||||||||
| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 4.1.99.17 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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Phosphomethylpyrimidine synthase (EC 4.1.99.17, thiC (gene)) is an enzyme with systematic name 5-amino-1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)imidazole formate-lyase (decarboxylating, 4-amino-2-methyl-5-phosphomethylpyrimidine-forming). [1] [2] [3] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
Contents
- 5-amino-1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)imidazole + S-adenosyl-L-methionine 4-amino-2-methyl-5-phosphomethylpyrimidine + 5′-deoxyadenosine + L-methionine + formate + CO
This enzyme binds a 4Fe-4S cluster.
The starting material is 5-aminoimidazole ribotide, which undergoes a rearrangement reaction via radical intermediates which incorporate the blue, green and red fragments shown into the product. [3] [4]
