Biology:Purine nucleoside phosphorylase

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purine-nucleoside phosphorylase
purine-nucleoside phosphorylase. PDB 1rct.[1]
Identifiers
EC number2.4.2.1
CAS number9030-21-1
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Purine nucleoside phosphorylase, PNP, PNPase or inosine phosphorylase (EC 2.4.2.1) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PNP gene.[2] It catalyzes the chemical reaction

Purine Nucleoside + Inorganic Phosphate (Pi) Purine Base + α-D-Ribose 1-Phosphate

The enzyme catalyzes reversible interconversion of purine nucleoside and phosphate into purine base and α-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:

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

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-1-phosphate. In humans, adenosine is first metabolized to inosine via the enzyme adenosine deaminase.[3]

One of the reactions 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. For pyrimidine nucleosides:

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

PNP protein may use the morpheein model of allosteric regulation.[4]

Clinical significance

Purine nucleoside phosphorylase, together with adenosine deaminase (ADA), serves a key role in purine catabolism. Mutations in ADA lead to an accumulation of dATP, which inhibits ribonucleotide reductase, leading to a deficiency in dCTP and dTTP, which, in turn, induces apoptosis in T-lymphocytes and B-lymphocytes, leading to severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).[5]

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

See also

References

  1. "Structures of human purine nucleoside phosphorylase complexed with inosine and ddI". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 313 (4): 907–914. January 2004. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.11.179. PMID 14706628. Bibcode2004BBRC..313..907C. 
  2. "Entrez Gene: NP nucleoside phosphorylase". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/4860. 
  3. Kaplan USMLE Biochemistry Review
  4. "Dynamic dissociating homo-oligomers and the control of protein function". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 519 (2): 131–143. March 2012. doi:10.1016/j.abb.2011.11.020. PMID 22182754. 
  5. "Mutations in the human adenosine deaminase gene that affect protein structure and RNA splicing". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 84 (16): 5947–5951. August 1987. doi:10.1073/pnas.84.16.5947. PMID 3475710. 

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