DHPS

This article is about the gene coding for the enzyme deoxyhypusine synthase. For another enzyme commonly abbreviated DHPS, see Dihydropteroate synthetase. For other uses, see DHPS (disambiguation).
Deoxyhypusine synthase

PDB rendering based on 1dhs.
Available structures
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Identifiers
SymbolsDHPS ; DHS; DS; MIG13
External IDsOMIM: 600944 MGI: 2683592 HomoloGene: 1453 ChEMBL: 4415 GeneCards: DHPS Gene
EC number2.5.1.46
RNA expression pattern
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Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez1725330817
EnsemblENSG00000095059ENSMUSG00000060038
UniProtP49366Q3TXU5
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_001206974NM_001039514
RefSeq (protein)NP_001193903NP_001034603
Location (UCSC)Chr 19:
12.79 – 12.79 Mb
Chr 8:
85.07 – 85.08 Mb
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Deoxyhypusine synthase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the DHPS gene.[1][2]

The unusual amino acid hypusine is formed posttranslationally and is only found in a single cellular protein, eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A. In the first step of hypusine biosynthesis, deoxyhypusine synthase catalyzes the NAD-dependent transfer of the butylamine moiety of spermidine to the epsilon-amino group of a specific lysine residue of the EIF5A precursor protein to form the intermediate deoxyhypusine residue. This gene consists of nine exons spanning 6.6 kb. Three transcript variants have been isolated. However, only transcript variant 1 encodes an active protein. The shorter variants may act as modulating factors of DHPS activity.[2]

References

  1. Joe YA, Wolff EC, Park MH (Oct 1995). "Cloning and expression of human deoxyhypusine synthase cDNA. Structure-function studies with the recombinant enzyme and mutant proteins". J Biol Chem 270 (38): 22386–92. doi:10.1074/jbc.270.38.22386. PMID 7673224.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Entrez Gene: DHPS deoxyhypusine synthase".

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