IMPDH2

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Inosine-5'-monophosphate dehydrogenase 2, also known as IMP dehydrogenase 2, is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the IMPDH2 gene.[1][2][3]

Function

IMP dehydrogenase 2 is the rate-limiting enzyme in the de novo guanine nucleotide biosynthesis. It is thus involved in maintaining cellular guanine deoxy- and ribonucleotide pools needed for DNA and RNA synthesis. IMPDH2 catalyzes the NAD-dependent oxidation of inosine-5'-monophosphate into xanthine-5'-monophosphate, which is then converted into guanosine-5'-monophosphate.[1] IMPDH2 has been identified as an intracellular target of the natural product sanglifehrin A[4]

Clinical significance

This gene is up-regulated in some neoplasms, suggesting it may play a role in malignant transformation.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Entrez Gene: IMP (inosine monophosphate) dehydrogenase 2".
  2. Natsumeda Y, Ohno S, Kawasaki H, Konno Y, Weber G, Suzuki K (March 1990). "Two distinct cDNAs for human IMP dehydrogenase". J. Biol. Chem. 265 (9): 5292–5. PMID 1969416.
  3. Kost-Alimova MV, Glesne DA, Huberman E, Zelenin AV (1998). "Assignment1 of inosine '-monophosphate dehydrogenase type 2 (IMPDH2) to human chromosome band 3p21.2 by in situ hybridization". Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 82 (3–4): 145–6. doi:10.1159/000015088. PMID 9858805.
  4. Pua KH, Stiles DT, Sowa ME, Verdine GL (10 January 2017). "IMPDH2 Is an Intracellular Target of the Cyclophilin A and Sanglifehrin A Complex". Cell Rep. 18 (2): 432–442. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2016.12.030. PMID 28076787.

Further reading

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.