Biology:CTPS2
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Short description: Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens
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CTP synthase 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CTPS2 gene.[1][2]
The protein encoded by this gene catalyzes the formation of CTP from UTP with the concomitant deamination of glutamine to glutamate.
This protein is the rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of cytosine nucleotides, which play an important role in various metabolic processes and provide the precursors necessary for the synthesis of RNA and DNA. Cancer cells that exhibit increased cell proliferation also exhibit an increased activity of this encoded protein.
Thus, this protein is an attractive target for selective chemotherapy. Two alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding the same protein have been described for this gene.[2]
References
- ↑ "Identification of a cDNA encoding an isoform of human CTP synthetase". Biochim Biophys Acta 1492 (2–3): 548–52. Oct 2000. doi:10.1016/s0167-4781(00)00141-x. PMID 10899599.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Entrez Gene: CTPS2 CTP synthase II". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=56474.
External links
- Human CTPS2 genome location and CTPS2 gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.
Further reading
- Olsen JV; Blagoev B; Gnad F et al. (2006). "Global, in vivo, and site-specific phosphorylation dynamics in signaling networks". Cell 127 (3): 635–48. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.09.026. PMID 17081983.
- Rual JF; Venkatesan K; Hao T et al. (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514. Bibcode: 2005Natur.437.1173R.
- Han GS; Sreenivas A; Choi MG et al. (2006). "Expression of Human CTP Synthetase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Reveals Phosphorylation by Protein Kinase A". J. Biol. Chem. 280 (46): 38328–36. doi:10.1074/jbc.M509622200. PMID 16179339.
- Ross MT; Grafham DV; Coffey AJ et al. (2005). "The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome". Nature 434 (7031): 325–37. doi:10.1038/nature03440. PMID 15772651. Bibcode: 2005Natur.434..325R.
- Gerhard DS; Wagner L; Feingold EA et al. (2004). "The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.
- Ota T; Suzuki Y; Nishikawa T et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
- Strausberg RL; Feingold EA; Grouse LH et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932. Bibcode: 2002PNAS...9916899M.