Phosphoribosylaminoimidazolecarboxamide formyltransferase
| phosphoribosylaminoimidazolecarboxamide formyltransferase | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 2.1.2.3 | ||||||||
| CAS no. | 9032-03-5 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
| Gene Ontology | AmiGO / QuickGO | ||||||||
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In enzymology, a phosphoribosylaminoimidazolecarboxamide formyltransferase (EC 2.1.2.3), also known by the shorter name AICAR transformylase, is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are 10-formyltetrahydrofolate and AICAR, whereas its two products are tetrahydrofolate and FAICAR.
This enzyme participates in purine metabolism and one carbon pool by folate.