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Facts about S-methyl-5'-thioadenosine phosphorylase.
Responsible for the initial step in the methionine salvage pathway after MTA was generated from S- adenosylmethionine. Has broad substrate specificity with 6- aminopurine nucleosides as preferred substrates.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | MTAP |
Uniprot: | Q13126 |
Entrez: | 4507 |
Belongs to: |
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PNP/MTAP phosphorylase family |
5'-methylthioadenosine phosphorylase; BDMF; C86fus; DMSFH; DMSMFH; EC 2.4.2.28; HEL-249; LGMBF; methylthioadenosine phosphorylase; MSAPMeSAdo phosphorylase; MTA phosphorylase; MTAP; MTAPase; S-methyl-5'-thioadenosine phosphorylase
Mass (kDA):
31.236 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 9p21.3 |
Sequence: | 9; NC_000009.12 (21802636..21867081) |
Ubiquitously expressed.
Cytoplasm. Nucleus.
PMID: 7604019 by Olopade O.I., et al. Construction of a 2.8-megabase yeast artificial chromosome contig and cloning of the human methylthioadenosine phosphorylase gene from the tumor suppressor region on 9p21.
PMID: 8650244 by Nobori T., et al. Genomic cloning of methylthioadenosine phosphorylase: a purine metabolic enzyme deficient in multiple different cancers.