OAZ2

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Ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the OAZ2 gene.

Ornithine decarboxylase catalyzes the conversion of ornithine to putrescine in the first and apparently rate-limiting step in polyamine biosynthesis. The ornithine decarboxylase antizymes play a role in the regulation of polyamine synthesis by binding to and inhibiting ornithine decarboxylase. Antizyme expression is auto-regulated by polyamine-enhanced translational frameshifting. The antizyme encoded by this gene inhibits ornithine decarboxylase but does not accelerate its degradation.

Further reading

• Coffino P (2000). "Polyamines in spermiogenesis: not now, darling". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (9): 4421–3. doi:10.1073/pnas.97.9.4421. PMC 34313. PMID 10781034.
• Ewing RM, Chu P, Elisma F, et al. (2007). "Large-scale mapping of human protein-protein interactions by mass spectrometry". Mol. Syst. Biol. 3 (1): 89. doi:10.1038/msb4100134. PMC 1847948. PMID 17353931.
• Mangold U, Leberer E (2005). "Regulation of all members of the antizyme family by antizyme inhibitor". Biochem. J. 385 (Pt 1): 21–8. doi:10.1042/BJ20040547. PMC 1134669. PMID 15355308.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Chen H, MacDonald A, Coffino P (2003). "Structural elements of antizymes 1 and 2 are required for proteasomal degradation of ornithine decarboxylase". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (48): 45957–61. doi:10.1074/jbc.M206799200. PMID 12359729.
• Nilsson J, Koskiniemi S, Persson K, et al. (1998). "Polyamines regulate both transcription and translation of the gene encoding ornithine decarboxylase antizyme in mouse". Eur. J. Biochem. 250 (2): 223–31. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.0223a.x. PMID 9428668.
• Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB (1997). "Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery". Genome Res. 6 (9): 791–806. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.791. PMID 8889548.