IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 1.4.4.2

Accepted name: glycine dehydrogenase (decarboxylating)

Reaction: glycine + H-protein-lipoyllysine = H-protein-S-aminomethyldihydrolipoyllysine + CO2

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Glossary: dihydrolipoyl group

Other name(s): P-protein; glycine decarboxylase; glycine-cleavage complex; glycine:lipoylprotein oxidoreductase (decarboxylating and acceptor-aminomethylating); protein P1

Systematic name: glycine:H-protein-lipoyllysine oxidoreductase (decarboxylating, acceptor-amino-methylating)

Comments: A pyridoxal-phosphate protein. A component, with EC 2.1.2.10, aminomethyltransferase and EC 1.8.1.4, dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenanse, of the glycine cleavage system, previously known as glycine synthase. The glycine cleavage system is composed of four components that only loosely associate: the P protein (EC 1.4.4.2), the T protein (EC 2.1.2.10), the L protein (EC 1.8.1.4) and the lipoyl-bearing H protein [3].

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, CAS registry number: 37259-67-9

References:

1. Hiraga, K. and Kikuchi, G. The mitochondrial glycine cleavage system. Functional association of glycine decarboxylase and aminomethyl carrier protein. J. Biol. Chem. 255 (1980) 11671-11676. [PMID: 7440563]

2. Perham, R.N. Swinging arms and swinging domains in multifunctional enzymes: catalytic machines for multistep reactions. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 69 (2000) 961-1004. [PMID: 10966480]

3. Nesbitt, N.M., Baleanu-Gogonea, C., Cicchillo, R.M., Goodson, K., Iwig, D.F., Broadwater, J.A., Haas, J.A., Fox, B.G. and Booker, S.J. Expression, purification, and physical characterization of Escherichia coli lipoyl(octanoyl)transferase. Protein Expr. Purif. 39 (2005) 269-282. [PMID: 15642479]

[EC 1.4.4.2 created 1984, modified 2003, modified 2006]


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