Purine nucleoside phosphorylase

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Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:More footnotes neededTemplate:Infobox enzyme Template:Infobox gene Purine nucleoside phosphorylase, PNP, PNPase or inosine phosphorylase (Template:EC number) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NP gene.[1] It catalyzes the chemical reaction

purine nucleoside + phosphate ⇌ purine + alpha-D-ribose 1-phosphate

Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are a purine nucleoside and phosphate, whereas its products are a purine and alpha-D-ribose 1-phosphate.

Nomenclature

This enzyme belongs to the family of glycosyltransferases, specifically the pentosyltransferases. The systematic name of this enzyme class is purine-nucleoside:phosphate ribosyltransferase.

Other names in common use include: Template:Div col

  • inosine phosphorylase
  • PNPase
  • PUNPI
  • PUNPII
  • inosine-guanosine phosphorylase
  • nucleotide phosphatase
  • purine deoxynucleoside phosphorylase
  • purine deoxyribonucleoside phosphorylase
  • purine nucleoside phosphorylase
  • purine ribonucleoside phosphorylas

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This enzyme participates in 3 metabolic pathways: purine metabolism, pyrimidine metabolism, and nicotinate and nicotinamide metabolism.

Function

Purine nucleoside phosphorylase is an enzyme involved in purine metabolism. PNP metabolizes inosine into hypoxanthine and guanosine into guanine, in each case creating ribose phosphate. Note: adenosine is first metabolized to inosine via the enzyme adenosine deaminase.[2]

One of the reaction catalyzed by purine nucleoside phosphorylase in purine metabolism

Nucleoside phosphorylase is an enzyme which cleaves a nucleoside by phosphorylating the ribose to produce a nucleobase and ribose 1 phosphate. It is one enzyme of the nucleotide salvage pathways. These pathways allow the cell to produce nucleotide monophosphates when the de novo synthesis pathway has been interrupted or is non-existent (as is the case in the brain). Often the de novo pathway is interrupted as a result of chemotherapy drugs such as methotrexate or aminopterin.

All salvage pathway enzymes require a high energy phosphate donor such as ATP or PRPP.

Adenosine uses the enzyme adenosine kinase, which is a very important enzyme in the cell. Attempts are being made to develop an inhibitor for the enzyme for use in cancer chemotherapy.

Enzyme regulation

This protein may use the morpheein model of allosteric regulation.[3]

Clinical significance

PNPase, together with adenosine deaminase (ADA), serves a key role in purine catabolism, referred to as the salvage pathway. Mutations in ADA lead to an accumulation of (d)ATP, which inhibits ribonucleotide reductase, leading to a deficiency in (d)CTPs and (d)TTPs, which, in turn, induces apoptosis in T-lymphocytes and B-lymphocytes, leading to severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).Template:Citation needed

PNP-deficient patients will have an immunodeficiency problem. It affects only T-cells; B-cells are unaffected by the deficiency.

See also

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  1. ↑ Template:Cite web
  2. ↑ Kaplan USMLE Biochemistry Review
  3. ↑ Template:Cite journal
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