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Umps  -  uridine monophosphate synthetase

Mus musculus

Synonyms: 1700095D23Rik, AA408257, AL033308, BB164745, UMP synthase, ...
 
 
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Disease relevance of Umps

  • Recently claims were made that (i) the steady-state activities of UMP synthase could be modeled by Michaelis-Menten kinetics, and (ii) the nucleotidase activity in Ehrlich ascites cells was insufficient to degrade any significant amount of OMP [R.W. McClard and K.M. Shokat (1987) Biochemistry 26, 3378-3384] [1].
 

High impact information on Umps

  • The typical metabolic disorder associated with the inhibition of UMP synthase activity, known as "orotic aciduria," was not observed under these conditions, but other anomalous metabolic responses related to cholesterol metabolism were developed [2].
  • A novel nonradioactive, microassay method has been developed to determine simultaneously the two enzymatic activities of orotate phosphoribosyltransferase (OPRTase) and orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase (ODCase), either as a bifunctional protein (uridine 5'-monophosphate synthase, UMPS) or as separate enzymes [3].
  • A nonradioactive high-performance liquid chromatographic microassay for uridine 5'-monophosphate synthase, orotate phosphoribosyltransferase, and orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase [3].
  • It is therefore the complex steady-state kinetics of UMP synthase in the presence of OMP, and the existence of a substrate cycle that account for the results which were interpreted as channeling in the earlier studies [1].
  • The present studies show that UMP synthase has cooperative kinetics toward OMP, and that a substrate cycle involving orotate phosphoribosyltransferase, cytoplasmic nucleotidase, and uridine phosphorylase maintains the cyclic interconversion: orotate----OMP----orotidine----orotate, etc [1].
 

Biological context of Umps

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