Dihydropyrimidine amidohydrolases and dihydroorotases share the same origin and several enzymatic properties.

Abstract:

:Slime mold, plant and insect dihydropyrimidine amidohydrolases (DHPases, EC 3.5.2.2), which catalyze the second step of pyrimidine and several anti-cancer drug degradations, were cloned and shown to functionally replace a defective DHPase enzyme in the yeast Saccharomyces kluyveri. The yeast and slime mold DHPases were over-expressed, shown to contain two zinc ions, characterized for their properties and compared to those of the calf liver enzyme. In general, the kinetic parameters varied widely among the enzymes, the mammalian DHPase having the highest catalytic efficiency. The ring opening was catalyzed most efficiently at pH 8.0 and competitively inhibited by the reaction product, N-carbamyl-beta-alanine. At lower pH values DHPases catalyzed the reverse reaction, the closing of the ring. Apparently, eukaryote DHPases are enzymatically as well as phylogenetically related to the de novo biosynthetic dihydroorotase (DHOase) enzymes. Modeling studies showed that the position of the catalytically critical amino acid residues of bacterial DHOases and eukaryote DHPases overlap. Therefore, only a few modifications might have been necessary during evolution to convert the unspecialized enzyme into anabolic and catabolic ones.

journal_name

Nucleic Acids Res

journal_title

Nucleic acids research

authors

Gojkovic Z,Rislund L,Andersen B,Sandrini MP,Cook PF,Schnackerz KD,Piskur J

doi

10.1093/nar/gkg258

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-03-15 00:00:00

pages

1683-92

issue

6

eissn

0305-1048

issn

1362-4962

journal_volume

31

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