CATH Classification

Domain Context

CATH Clusters

Superfamily Nucleoside phosphorylase domain
Functional Family Purine nucleoside phosphorylase

Enzyme Information

2.4.2.1
Purine-nucleoside phosphorylase.
based on mapping to UniProt P9WP00
(1) Purine nucleoside + phosphate = purine + alpha-D-ribose 1-phosphate. (2) Purine deoxynucleoside + phosphate = purine + 2'-deoxy-alpha-D-ribose 1-phosphate.
-!- Specificity not completely determined. -!- Can also catalyze ribosyltransferase reactions of the type catalyzed by EC 2.4.2.5.

UniProtKB Entries (1)

P9WP00
PUNA_MYCTO
Mycobacterium tuberculosis CDC1551
Purine nucleoside phosphorylase

PDB Structure

PDB 1I80
External Links
Method X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Organism Escherichia
Primary Citation
Structures of purine nucleoside phosphorylase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in complexes with immucillin-H and its pieces.
Shi, W., Basso, L.A., Santos, D.S., Tyler, P.C., Furneaux, R.H., Blanchard, J.S., Almo, S.C., Schramm, V.L.
Biochemistry