Discovery of a new tetrahydrobiopterin-synthesizing enzyme in the lemon mutant of the silkworm Bombyx mori.

doi:10.1016/s0167-4838(96)00087-8

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Discovery of a new tetrahydrobiopterin-synthesizing enzyme in the lemon mutant of the silkworm Bombyx mori.

Biochimica et biophysica acta - 17 Oct 1996

Iino T, Sawada H, Tsusué M, Takikawa S

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A new tetrahydrobiopterin-synthesizing enzyme, which is different from sepiapterin reductase (EC 1.1.1.153), was discovered in the integument of the lemon mutant of the silkworm Bombyx mori. This enzyme converted 6-pyruvoyltetrahydropterin to tetrahydrobiopterin, an essential cofactor in the hydr...

Topics

Alcohol Oxidoreductases
Animals
Biopterins
Body Weight
Bombyx
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Weight
Mutation
Pterins
Serotonin

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