IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 6.3.5.9

Accepted name: hydrogenobyrinic acid a,c-diamide synthase (glutamine-hydrolysing)

Reaction: 2 ATP + hydrogenobyrinic acid + 2 L-glutamine + 2 H2O = 2 ADP + 2 phosphate + hydrogenobyrinic acid a,c-diamide + 2 L-glutamate

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Other name(s): CobB

Systematic name: hydrogenobyrinic-acid:L-glutamine amido-ligase (AMP-forming)

Comments: This enzyme, which participates in the aerobic (late cobalt insertion) cobalamin biosynthesis pathway, generates hydrogenobyrinate a,c-diamide, the substrate required by EC 6.6.1.2, cobaltochelatase, which adds cobalt to the macrocycle. The equivalent reaction in the anaerobic cobalamin biosynthesis pathway is catalysed by EC 6.3.5.11, cobyrinate a,c-diamide synthase.

Comments: This step in the aerobic biosynthesis of cobalamin generates hydrogenobyrinic acid a,c-diamide, the substrate required by EC 6.6.1.2, cobaltochelatase, which adds cobalt to the macrocycle.

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, Metacyc, CAS registry number: 132053-22-6

References:

1. Debussche, L., Thibaut, D., Cameron, B., Crouzet, J. and Blanche, F. Purification and characterization of cobyrinic acid a,c-diamide synthase from Pseudomonas denitrificans. J. Bacteriol. 172 (1990) 6239-6244. [PMID: 2172209]

2. Warren, M.J., Raux, E., Schubert, H.L. and Escalante-Semerena, J.C. The biosynthesis of adenosylcobalamin (vitamin B12). Nat. Prod. Rep. 19 (2002) 390-412. [PMID: 12195810]

[EC 6.3.5.9 created 2004]


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