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Futalosine hydrolase (EC 3.2.2.26, futalosine nucleosidase, MqnB) is an enzyme with systematic name futalosine ribohydrolase.[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

futalosine + H2O dehypoxanthine futalosine + hypoxanthine

This enzyme catalyses the second step of menaquinone biosynthesis.

References

  1. ^ Hiratsuka T, Furihata K, Ishikawa J, Yamashita H, Itoh N, Seto H, Dairi T (September 2008). "An alternative menaquinone biosynthetic pathway operating in microorganisms". Science. 321 (5896): 1670–3. doi:10.1126/science.1160446. PMID 18801996.

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