Amidophosphoribosyltransferase

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  (Redirected from PPAT)
Jump to: navigation, search
phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate amidotransferase
Identifiers
Symbol PPAT
Entrez 5471
HUGO 9238
OMIM 172450
RefSeq NM_002703
UniProt Q06203
Other data
EC number 2.4.2.14
Locus Chr. 4 pter-q21

Amidophosphoribosyltransferase (or phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate amidotransferase) is an enzyme that converts phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (PRPP) into 5-phosphoribosylamine. The enzyme uses the ammonia group from the glutamine side-chain. This is the committing step in de novo purine synthesis.

It is allosterically inhibited by AMP, GMP, and IMP.

[edit] External links

Languages