Product name:Nucleoside phosphorylase
CAS:9030-21-1
Specification:500u
Description:
Purine nucleoside phosphorylase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NP gene.
NP encodes the enzyme purine nucleoside phosphorylase that together with adenosine deaminase (ADA) serves a key role in purine catabolism, referred to as the salvage pathway. Mutations in either enzyme result in a severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).
Nucleoside phosphorylase is an enzyme which cleaves a nucleoside by phosphorylating the ribose to produce a nucleobase and ribose 1 phosphate. It is one enzyme of the nucleotide salvage pathways. These pathways allow the cell to produce nucleotide monophosphates when the de novo synthesis pathway has been interrupted or is non-existent (as is the case in the brain). Often the de novo pathway is interrupted as a result of chemotherapy drugs such as methotrexate or aminopterin.