Biology:Homospermidine synthase

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Short description: Enzyme
Homospermidine synthase
Identifiers
EC number2.5.1.44
CAS number76106-84-8
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Homospermidine synthase (EC 2.5.1.44) is an enzyme with systematic name putrescine:putrescine 4-aminobutyltransferase (ammonia-forming).[1][2][3][4][5][6] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

(1) 2 putrescine [math]\displaystyle{ \rightleftharpoons }[/math] sym-homospermidine + NH3 + H+
(2) putrescine + spermidine [math]\displaystyle{ \rightleftharpoons }[/math] sym-homospermidine + propane-1,3-diamine

The reaction of this enzyme occurs in three steps.

References

  1. "The formation of homospermidine by an enzyme from Rhodopseudomonas viridis [proceedings]". Biochemical Society Transactions 7 (1): 199–201. February 1979. doi:10.1042/bst0070199. PMID 437275. 
  2. "Biosynthesis of pyrrolizidine alkaloids: putrescine and spermidine are essential substrates of enzymatic homospermidine formation". Can. J. Chem. 72: 80–85. 1994. doi:10.1139/v94-013. 
  3. "Purification and characterization of homospermidine synthase in Acinetobacter tartarogenes ATCC 31105". Journal of Biochemistry 114 (1): 45–9. July 1993. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a124137. PMID 8407874. 
  4. "Enzymic synthesis of sym-homospermidine in Lathyrus sativus (grass pea) seedlings". The Biochemical Journal 190 (2): 461–4. August 1980. doi:10.1042/bj1900461. PMID 7470060. 
  5. "Homospermidine synthase of Rhodopseudomonas viridis: Substrate specificity and effects of the heterologously expressed enzyme on polyamine metabolism of Escherichia coli". J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 42 (5): 411–419. 1996. doi:10.2323/jgam.42.411. 
  6. "Homospermidine synthase, the first pathway-specific enzyme of pyrrolizidine alkaloid biosynthesis, evolved from deoxyhypusine synthase". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96 (26): 14777–82. December 1999. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.26.14777. PMID 10611289. Bibcode1999PNAS...9614777O. 

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