The enzyme from Leishmania (both amastigote and promastigote forms) catalyses the reduction by NADPH of folate and a wide variety of unconjugated pterins, including biopterin, to their tetrahydro forms. It also catalyses the reduction of 7,8-dihydropterins and 7,8-dihydrofolate to their tetrahydro forms. In contrast to EC 1.5.1.3 (dihydrofolate reductase) and EC 1.5.1.34 (6,7-dihydropteridine reductase), pteridine reductase will not catalyse the reduction of the quinonoid form of dihydrobiopterin. The enzyme is specific for NADPH; no activity has been detected with NADH. It also differs from EC 1.5.1.3 (dihydrofolate reductase) in being specific for the Si-face of NADPH.
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SYSTEMATIC NAME
IUBMB Comments
5,6,7,8-tetrahydrobiopterin:NADP+ oxidoreductase
The enzyme from Leishmania (both amastigote and promastigote forms) catalyses the reduction by NADPH of folate and a wide variety of unconjugated pterins, including biopterin, to their tetrahydro forms. It also catalyses the reduction of 7,8-dihydropterins and 7,8-dihydrofolate to their tetrahydro forms. In contrast to EC 1.5.1.3 (dihydrofolate reductase) and EC 1.5.1.34 (6,7-dihydropteridine reductase), pteridine reductase will not catalyse the reduction of the quinonoid form of dihydrobiopterin. The enzyme is specific for NADPH; no activity has been detected with NADH. It also differs from EC 1.5.1.3 (dihydrofolate reductase) in being specific for the Si-face of NADPH.
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CRYSTALLIZATION (Commentary)
ORGANISM
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LITERATURE
purified recombinant enzyme in binary complex with NADPH and in ternary complex with NADPH and methotrexate, 0.02 ml of protein solution containing 20 mg/ml protein, 20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.0, mixed with 0.01 ml of a solution containing 4 mM NADPH, 4 mM methotrexate on ice for 1 h, then mixed with 0.01 ml of reservoir solution containing 28% 1,4-butanediol, 12.5 mM cetyl trimethyl ammonium chloride and 100 mM HEPES, pH 7.0, 5 days, 14°C, X-ray diffraction structure determination and analysis of flash frozen crystals at 2.8 A resolution, molecular replacement technique
mutant enzyme Y175D shows properties similar to wild type enzyme. The mutant enzymes Y38D, Y195F, Y195W, and K199R are inactive even if they are purified as tetramers