SAICAR synthetase

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spinqualitylabelsall models Caption for this structure Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image Contents 1 Function 2 Disease 3 Relevance 4 Structural highlights Function SAICAR synthetase (SAI) or phosphoribosylaminoimidazole-succinocarboxamide synthetase is part of the purine biosynthesis. SAI catalyzes ATP-dependent ligation of carboxyaminoimidazole ribotide (AICAR) with aspartate[1]. Disease Relevance Structural highlights

3D structures of resolvase

Updated on 26-December-2016

**4fe2, 4nye – SpSAI + ADP + aspartate + AICAR – Streptococcus pneumoniae

References

1. ↑ Manjunath K, Jeyakanthan J, Sekar K. Catalytic pathway, substrate binding and stability in SAICAR synthetase: A structure and molecular dynamics study. J Struct Biol. 2015 Jul;191(1):22-31. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2015.06.006. Epub 2015, Jun 10. PMID:26072057 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2015.06.006