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- * Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase active site *
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- Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.49) (G6PD) [1] catalyzes the first
- step in the pentose pathway, the reduction of glucose-6-phosphate to
- gluconolactone 6-phosphate. A lysine residue has been identified as a
- reactive nucleophile associated with the activity of the enzyme. The sequence
- around this lysine is totally conserved from bacterial to mammalian G6PD's and
- can be used as a signature pattern for this type of enzyme.
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- -Consensus pattern: D-H-Y-L-G-K-E
- [K is the active site residue]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
- -Last update: October 1993 / Text revised.
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- [ 1] Jeffery J., Persson B., Wood I., Bergman T., Jeffery R., Joernvall H.
- Eur. J. Biochem. 212:41-49(1993).
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