Porphobilinogen deaminase

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Porphobilinogen deaminase

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Hydroxymethylbilane synthase

Rendering based on PDB 3ECR.
Identifiers
Symbols HMBS; PBG-D; PBGD; PORC; UPS
External IDs OMIM609806 MGI96112 HomoloGene158 GeneCards: HMBS Gene
EC number 2.5.1.61
RNA expression pattern
PBB GE HMBS 203040 s at tn.png
PBB GE HMBS 213344 s at tn.png
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Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 3145 15288
Ensembl ENSG00000149397 ENSMUSG00000032126
UniProt P08397 n/a
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000190.3 NM_013551
RefSeq (protein) NP_000181.2 NP_038579
Location (UCSC) Chr 11:
118.46 – 118.47 Mb
Chr 9:
44.14 – 44.15 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Porphobilinogen deaminase (also known as hydroxymethylbilane synthase or uroporphyrinogen I synthase) is an enzyme involved in the third step of the metabolism of porphyrin, converting porphobilinogen into hydroxymethylbilane. The enzyme has the unique cofactor dipyrromethane. Defective activity of this enzyme can lead to the disorder acute intermittent porphyria.

This gene encodes a member of the hydroxymethylbilane synthase superfamily. The encoded protein is the third enzyme of the heme biosynthetic pathway and catalyzes the head to tail condensation of four porphobilinogen molecules into the linear hydroxymethylbilane. Mutations in this gene are associated with the autosomal dominant disease acute intermittent porphyria. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described.[1]

Heme synthesis—note that some reactions occur in the cytoplasm and some in the mitochondrion (yellow)

Older sources categorize it under EC 4.3.1.8.

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