{PDOC00141} {PS00156; OMPDECASE} {BEGIN} **************************************************** * Orotidine 5'-phosphate decarboxylase active site * **************************************************** Orotidine 5'-phosphate decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.23) (OMPdecase) [1,2] catalyzes the last step in the de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidines, the decarboxylation of OMP into UMP. In higher eukaryotes OMPdecase is part, with orotate phosphoribosyltransferase, of a bifunctional enzyme, while the prokaryotic and fungal OMPdecases are monofunctional protein. Some parts of the sequence of OMPdecase are well conserved across species. The best conserved region is located in the N-terminal half of OMPdecases and is centered around a lysine residue which is essential for the catalytic function of the enzyme. We have used this region as a signature pattern. -Consensus pattern: [LIVMFTAR]-[LIVMF]-x-D-x-K-x(2)-D-[IV]-[ADGP]-x-T- [CLIVMNTA] [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: January 2002 / Pattern and text revised. [ 1] Jacquet M., Guilbaud R., Garreau H. "Sequence analysis of the DdPYR5-6 gene coding for UMP synthase in Dictyostelium discoideum and comparison with orotate phosphoribosyl transferases and OMP decarboxylases." Mol. Gen. Genet. 211:441-445(1988). PubMed=2835631 [ 2] Kimsey H.H., Kaiser D. "The orotidine-5'-monophosphate decarboxylase gene of Myxococcus xanthus. Comparison to the OMP decarboxylase gene family." J. Biol. Chem. 267:819-824(1992). PubMed=1730672 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROSITE is copyrighted by the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, see https://prosite.expasy.org/prosite_license.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- {END}