IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 3.1.3.59

Accepted name: alkylacetylglycerophosphatase

Reaction: 1-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphate + H2O = 1-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycerol + phosphate

Other name(s): 1-alkyl-2-lyso-sn-glycero-3-P:acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase; alkylacetylglycerophosphate phosphatase

Systematic name: 1-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphate phosphohydrolase

Comments: Involved in the biosynthesis of thrombocyte activating factor in animal tissues.

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, Metacyc, CAS registry number: 102925-45-1

References:

1. Lee, T.-C., Malone, B. and Snyder, F. A new de novo pathway for the formation of 1-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycerols, precursors of platelet activating factor. Biochemical characterization of 1-alkyl-2-lyso-sn-glycero-3-P:acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase in rat spleen. J. Biol. Chem. 261 (1986) 5373-5377. [PMID: 3007498]

[EC 3.1.3.59 created 1989]


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