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The human ITPA polymorphic variant P32T is destabilized by the unpacking of the hydrophobic core.
Journal of structural biology - 1 Jun 2013
Simone Peter D, Struble Lucas R, Kellezi Admir, Brown Carrie A, Grabow Corinn E, Khutsishvili Irine, Marky Luis A, Pavlov Youri I, Borgstahl Gloria E O
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Inosine triphosphate pyrophosphatase (ITPA), a key enzyme involved in maintaining the purity of cellular nucleoside triphosphate pools, specifically recognizes inosine triphosphate and xanthosine triphosphate (including the deoxyribose forms) and detoxifies them by catalyzing the hydrolysis of a phosphoanhydride bond, releasing pyrophosphate. This prevents their inappropriate use as substrates in enzymatic...
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