|
GART
a highly conserved trifunctional enzyme. It has phosphoribosylglycinamide formyltransferase, phosphoribosylglycinamide synthetase, phosphoribosylaminoimidazole synthetase activity which is required for de novo purine biosynthesis. Inhibition of the de novo purine synthesis by folate analogs blocks the p53-dependent G1 checkpoint in human carcinoma cell lines. Two splice variant isoforms have been described. Note: This description may include information from UniProtKB.
|
| Protein type: EC 6.3.3.1; Enzyme, cellular metabolism; Cofactor and Vitamin Metabolism - one carbon pool by folate; EC 6.3.4.13; Mitochondrial; Ligase; Methyltransferase; Nucleotide Metabolism - purine; EC 2.1.2.2 |
|
Cellular Component: cytosol
|
|
Molecular Function: methyltransferase activity; phosphoribosylamine-glycine ligase activity; metal ion binding; phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine cyclo-ligase activity; phosphoribosylglycinamide formyltransferase activity; ATP binding
|
|
Biological Process: response to organic substance; purine ribonucleoside monophosphate biosynthetic process; purine base biosynthetic process; response to inorganic substance; nucleobase, nucleoside and nucleotide metabolic process; organ development; purine base metabolic process; 'de novo' IMP biosynthetic process
|
|
Reference #:
P22102 (UniProtKB)
|
| Alt. Names/Synonyms: 5'-phosphoribosylglycinamide transformylase; AIR synthase; AIRS; GAR transformylase; GARS; GART; GARTF; Glycinamide ribonucleotide synthetase; MGC47764; PAIS; PGFT; Phosphoribosyl-aminoimidazole synthetase; Phosphoribosylamine--glycine ligase; Phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine cyclo-ligase; Phosphoribosylglycinamide formyltransferase; phosphoribosylglycinamide formyltransferase, phosphoribosylglycinamide synthetase, phosphoribosylaminoimidazole synthetase; Phosphoribosylglycinamide synthetase; PRGS; PUR2; Trifunctional purine biosynthetic protein adenosine-3 |
| Gene Symbols: GART |
|
Molecular weight: 107,767 Da
|
|
Basal Isoelectric point: 6.26
Predict pI for various phosphorylation states
|