| Molybdopterin synthase | |||||||||
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| EC number | 2.8.1.12 | ||||||||
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| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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| PMC | articles |
| PubMed | articles |
| NCBI | proteins |
Molybdopterin synthase (EC 2.8.1.12, MPT synthase) is an enzyme required to synthesize molybdenum cofactor (MoCo) from precursor Z (now known as cyclic pyranopterin monophosphate). This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
It is heterodimeric and coded for by the MOCS2 gene.