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EC 1.14.16.7 Details
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1.14.16.7
Accepted name
phenylalanine 3-monooxygenase
Reaction
L-phenylalanine + a 5,6,7,8-tetrahydropteridine + O2 = 3-hydroxy-L-phenylalanine + a 4a-hydroxy-5,6,7,8-tetrahydropteridine
Other name(s)
PacX,
phenylalanine 3-hydroxylase
Systematic name
L-phenylalanine,tetrahydropteridine:oxygen oxidoreductase (3-hydroxylating)
Comment
The enzyme, characterized from the bacterium Streptomyces coeruleorubidus, forms 3-hydroxy-L-phenylalanine (i.e. m-L-tyrosine), which is one of the building blocks in the biosynthesis of the uridyl peptide antibiotics pacidamycins. The 4a-hydroxytetrahydropteridine formed can dehydrate to 6,7-dihydropteridine, both spontaneously and by the action of EC 4.2.1.96, 4a-hydroxytetrahydrobiopterin dehydratase. The 6,7-dihydropteridine must be enzymically reduced back to tetrahydropteridine, by EC 1.5.1.34, 6,7-dihydropteridine reductase, before it slowly rearranges into the more stable but inactive compound 7,8-dihydropteridine.
History
created 2014, modified 2019
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1 Oxidoreductases
1.1 Acting on the CH-OH group of donors
1.6.4.1 created 1961, deleted 2002 1.6.4.2 created 1961, modified 1989, deleted 2002 1.6.4.3 created 1961, modified 1976, deleted 1983 1.6.4.4 created 1965, deleted 2002 1.6.4.5 created 1972, deleted 2002 1.6.4.6 created 1972, deleted 2002 1.6.4.7 created 1978, deleted 2002 1.6.4.8 created 1989, deleted 2002 1.6.4.9 created 1992, deleted 2002 1.6.4.10 created 1992, deleted 2002
