DB code: D00496

CATH domain 3.30.70.260 : Alpha-Beta Plaits
1.10.800.10 : Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Catalytic domain
E.C. 1.14.16.1
CSA
M-CSA
MACiE

CATH domain Related DB codes (homologues)
1.10.800.10 : Phenylalanine Hydroxylase D00478
3.30.70.260 : Alpha-Beta Plaits T00247

Uniprot Enzyme Name
UniprotKB Protein name Synonyms Pfam RefSeq
P04176 Phenylalanine-4-hydroxylase
PAH
EC 1.14.16.1
Phe-4-monooxygenase
PF01842 (ACT)
PF00351 (Biopterin_H)
[Graphical View]
P00439 Phenylalanine-4-hydroxylase
PAH
EC 1.14.16.1
Phe-4-monooxygenase
PF01842 (ACT)
PF00351 (Biopterin_H)
[Graphical View]
NP_000268.1 (Protein)
NM_000277.1 (DNA/RNA sequence)

KEGG enzyme name
phenylalanine 4-monooxygenase
phenylalaninase
phenylalanine 4-hydroxylase
phenylalanine hydroxylase

UniprotKB: Accession Number Entry name Activity Subunit Subcellular location Cofactor
P04176 PH4H_RAT L-phenylalanine + tetrahydrobiopterin + O(2) = L-tyrosine + 4a-hydroxytetrahydrobiopterin. Homodimer. Fe(2+) ion.
P00439 PH4H_HUMAN L-phenylalanine + tetrahydrobiopterin + O(2) = L-tyrosine + 4a-hydroxytetrahydrobiopterin. Homodimer. Fe(2+) ion.

KEGG Pathways
Map code Pathways E.C.
MAP00400 Phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis

Compound table
Cofactors Substrates Products Intermediates
KEGG-id C00023 C00079 C00272 C00007 C00082 C15522
E.C.
Compound Iron L-Phenylalanine Tetrahydrobiopterin O2 L-Tyrosine 4a-hydroxytetrahydrobiopterin
Type heavy metal amino acids,aromatic ring (only carbon atom) amide group,amine group,aromatic ring (with nitrogen atoms),carbohydrate others amino acids,aromatic ring (only carbon atom) amine group,aromatic ring (with nitrogen atoms),carbohydrate
ChEBI 18248
82664
18248
82664
17295
58095
17295
58095
59560
59560
15379
26689
27140
15379
26689
27140
17895
58315
17895
58315
PubChem 23925
23925
6140
6925665
6140
6925665
44257
44257
977
977
6057
6942100
6057
6942100
46173804
46173804
1phzA01 Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound
2phmA01 Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound
1dmwA Bound:_FE Unbound Analogue:HBI Unbound Unbound Unbound
1j8tA Bound:FE2 Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound
1j8uA Bound:FE2 Unbound Bound:H4B Unbound Unbound Unbound
1kw0A Bound:FE2 Analogue:TIH Bound:H4B Analogue:HOH_435 Unbound Unbound
1lrmA Bound:_FE Unbound Analogue:HBI Unbound Unbound Unbound
1mmkA Bound:FE2 Analogue:TIH Bound:H4B Unbound Unbound Unbound
1mmtA Bound:FE2 Analogue:NLE Bound:H4B Analogue:HOH_575 Unbound Unbound
1pahA Bound:_FE Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound
1tdwA Bound:_FE Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound
1tg2A Bound:_FE Unbound Analogue:H2B Unbound Unbound Unbound
2pahA Bound:_FE Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound
2pahB Bound:_FE Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound
3pahA Bound:_FE Unbound Unbound Unbound Analogue:ALE Unbound
4pahA Bound:_FE Unbound Unbound Unbound Analogue:LNR Unbound
5pahA Bound:_FE Unbound Unbound Unbound Analogue:LDP Unbound
6pahA Bound:_FE Unbound Unbound Unbound Analogue:DAH Unbound
1phzA02 Bound:_FE Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound
2phmA02 Bound:_FE Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound Unbound

Reference for Active-site residues
resource references E.C.
PDB;1pah & Swiss-prot;P00439, P04176

Active-site residues
PDB Catalytic residues Cofactor-binding residues Modified residues Main-chain involved in catalysis Comment
1phzA01 (phospholylation) invisible S16 (phosphorylation site)
2phmA01 (phospholylation) invisible S16 (phosphorylation site)
1dmwA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
1j8tA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
1j8uA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
1kw0A HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
1lrmA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
1mmkA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
1mmtA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
1pahA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
1tdwA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
1tg2A HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
2pahA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
2pahB HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
3pahA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
4pahA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
5pahA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
6pahA HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
1phzA02 HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)
2phmA02 HIS 285;HIS 290;GLU 330(Iron binding)

References for Catalytic Mechanism
References Sections No. of steps in catalysis
[15]
p.997-998
[25]
p.817-819
[26]
p.444-445
[29]
Scheme 1, Fig.5, p.2211-2216
[38]
p.287-288
[43]
Fig.8, p.1103-1104
[47]
p.1071-1073, Fig.6

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Medline ID
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PubMed ID 2246858
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PubMed ID 1679029
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Medline ID
PubMed ID 2016740
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PubMed ID 1301187
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PubMed ID 8031788
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Year 1994
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PubMed ID 7914195
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Year 1994
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Medline ID
PubMed ID 8573072
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Year 1996
Volume 313
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Medline ID 9704451
PubMed ID 8889583
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Year 1996
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PubMed ID 9434741
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PubMed ID 9109411
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Year 1997
Volume 406
Pages 171-4
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[15]
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Comments X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (2.0 ANGSTROMS) OF 117-424
Medline ID 98069646
PubMed ID 9406548
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Year 1997
Volume 4
Pages 995-1000
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PubMed ID 9194198
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Year 1997
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Medline ID 99060040
PubMed ID 9843368
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Year 1998
Volume 37
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Related UniProtKB P00439
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Medline ID
PubMed ID 9540801
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Year 1998
Volume 1382
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[19]
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Medline ID
PubMed ID 9799096
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Year 1998
Volume 257
Pages 1-10
Authors Bjorgo E, Knappskog PM, Martinez A, Stevens RC, Flatmark T
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[20]
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Medline ID
PubMed ID 9490012
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Year 1998
Volume 422
Pages 225-30
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[21]
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Comments CHARACTERIZATION OF VARIANTS
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PubMed ID 9450897
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Year 1998
Volume 11
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Comments X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (3.1 ANGSTROMS) OF 117-452
Medline ID 98307935
PubMed ID 9642259
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Year 1998
Volume 273
Pages 16962-7
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Medline ID
PubMed ID 9846749
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Year 1998
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PubMed ID 10037716
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Year 1999
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PubMed ID 10610798
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Year 1999
Volume 294
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Comments X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (2.2 ANGSTROMS)
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PubMed ID 10331871
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Year 1999
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Year 1999
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PubMed ID 11368310
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Year 2000
Volume 384
Pages 238-44
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[29]
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Comments X-ray crystallography
Medline ID
PubMed ID 10694386
Journal Biochemistry
Year 2000
Volume 39
Pages 2208-17
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Comments
Medline ID
PubMed ID 11012685
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Year 2000
Volume 267
Pages 6302-10
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Medline ID
PubMed ID 10980574
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Year 2000
Volume 8
Pages 683-96
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Comments CHARACTERIZATION OF VARIANTS PKU
Medline ID 21313102
PubMed ID 11326337
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Year 2001
Volume 68
Pages 1353-60
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Medline ID
PubMed ID 11444803
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Year 2001
Volume 294
Pages 95-101
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[34]
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Medline ID
PubMed ID 11410294
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Year 2001
Volume 1547
Pages 379-86
Authors Doskeland AP, Flatmark T
Title Conjugation of phenylalanine hydroxylase with polyubiquitin chains catalysed by rat liver enzymes.
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[35]
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Comments
Medline ID
PubMed ID 11179966
Journal Eur J Biochem
Year 2001
Volume 268
Pages 997-1005
Authors Bjorgo E, de Carvalho RM, Flatmark T
Title A comparison of kinetic and regulatory properties of the tetrameric and dimeric forms of wild-type and Thr427-->Pro mutant human phenylalanine hydroxylase: contribution of the flexible hinge region Asp425-Gln429 to the tetramerization and cooperative substrate binding.
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PubMed ID 11163771
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Year 2001
Volume 488
Pages 196-200
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PubMed ID 11301319
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Year 2001
Volume 276
Pages 22850-6
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Title The effect of substrate, dihydrobiopterin, and dopamine on the EPR spectroscopic properties and the midpoint potential of the catalytic iron in recombinant human phenylalanine hydroxylase.
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Comments X-ray crystallography
Medline ID
PubMed ID 11718561
Journal J Mol Biol
Year 2001
Volume 314
Pages 279-91
Authors Andersen OA, Flatmark T, Hough E
Title High resolution crystal structures of the catalytic domain of human phenylalanine hydroxylase in its catalytically active Fe(II) form and binary complex with tetrahydrobiopterin.
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Comments
Medline ID
PubMed ID 11161839
Journal Mol Genet Metab
Year 2001
Volume 72
Pages 132-43
Authors Gjetting T, Petersen M, Guldberg P, Guttler F
Title In vitro expression of 34 naturally occurring mutant variants of phenylalanine hydroxylase: correlation with metabolic phenotypes and susceptibility toward protein aggregation.
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[40]
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Comments
Medline ID
PubMed ID 11461190
Journal Mol Genet Metab
Year 2001
Volume 73
Pages 230-8
Authors Waters PJ, Scriver CR, Parniak MA
Title Homomeric and heteromeric interactions between wild-type and mutant phenylalanine hydroxylase subunits: evaluation of two-hybrid approaches for functional analysis of mutations causing hyperphenylalaninemia.
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[41]
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PubMed ID 12056888
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Year 2002
Volume 41
Pages 7573-85
Authors Thorolfsson M, Ibarra-Molero B, Fojan P, Petersen SB, Sanchez-Ruiz JM, Martinez A
Title L-phenylalanine binding and domain organization in human phenylalanine hydroxylase: a differential scanning calorimetry study.
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[42]
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Comments
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PubMed ID 12185072
Journal J Biol Chem
Year 2002
Volume 277
Pages 40937-43
Authors Miranda FF, Teigen K, Thorolfsson M, Svebak RM, Knappskog PM, Flatmark T, Martinez A
Title Phosphorylation and mutations of Ser(16) in human phenylalanine hydroxylase. Kinetic and structural effects.
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[43]
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Comments X-ray crystallography
Medline ID
PubMed ID 12126628
Journal J Mol Biol
Year 2002
Volume 320
Pages 1095-108
Authors Andersen OA, Flatmark T, Hough E
Title Crystal structure of the ternary complex of the catalytic domain of human phenylalanine hydroxylase with tetrahydrobiopterin and 3-(2-thienyl)-L-alanine, and its implications for the mechanism of catalysis and substrate activation.
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[44]
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Comments
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PubMed ID 12096915
Journal J Mol Biol
Year 2002
Volume 320
Pages 645-61
Authors Erlandsen H, Kim JY, Patch MG, Han A, Volner A, Abu-Omar MM, Stevens RC
Title Structural comparison of bacterial and human iron-dependent phenylalanine hydroxylases: similar fold, different stability and reaction rates.
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PubMed ID 12142458
Journal Protein Sci
Year 2002
Volume 11
Pages 2041-7
Authors Horne J, Jennings IG, Teh T, Gooley PR, Kobe B
Title Structural characterization of the N-terminal autoregulatory sequence of phenylalanine hydroxylase.
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PubMed ID 12653545
Journal Biochemistry
Year 2003
Volume 42
Pages 3419-28
Authors Thorolfsson M, Teigen K, Martinez A
Title Activation of phenylalanine hydroxylase: effect of substitutions at Arg68 and Cys237.
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PubMed ID 12631267
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Year 2003
Volume 270
Pages 1065-75
Authors Maass A, Scholz J, Moser A
Title Modeled ligand-protein complexes elucidate the origin of substrate specificity and provide insight into catalytic mechanisms of phenylalanine hydroxylase and tyrosine hydroxylase.
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PubMed ID 12603331
Journal Eur J Biochem
Year 2003
Volume 270
Pages 981-90
Authors Solstad T, Stokka AJ, Andersen OA, Flatmark T
Title Studies on the regulatory properties of the pterin cofactor and dopamine bound at the active site of human phenylalanine hydroxylase.
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[49]
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PubMed ID 12655546
Journal Hum Mutat
Year 2003
Volume 21
Pages 370-8
Authors Pey AL, Desviat LR, Gamez A, Ugarte M, Perez B
Title Phenylketonuria: genotype-phenotype correlations based on expression analysis of structural and functional mutations in PAH.
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[50]
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PubMed ID 12696880
Journal J Am Chem Soc
Year 2003
Volume 125
Pages 4710-1
Authors Kinzie SD, Thevis M, Ngo K, Whitelegge J, Loo JA, Abu-Omar MM
Title Posttranslational hydroxylation of human phenylalanine hydroxylase is a novel example of enzyme self-repair within the second coordination sphere of catalytic iron.
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[51]
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PubMed ID 12554741
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Year 2003
Volume 278
Pages 15142-52
Authors Carvalho RN, Solstad T, Bjorgo E, Barroso JF, Flatmark T
Title Deamidations in recombinant human phenylalanine hydroxylase. Identification of labile asparagine residues and functional characterization of Asn --> Asp mutant forms.
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[52]
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PubMed ID 14568534
Journal J Mol Biol
Year 2003
Volume 333
Pages 747-57
Authors Andersen OA, Stokka AJ, Flatmark T, Hough E
Title 2.0A resolution crystal structures of the ternary complexes of human phenylalanine hydroxylase catalytic domain with tetrahydrobiopterin and 3-(2-thienyl)-L-alanine or L-norleucine: substrate specificity and molecular motions related to substrate binding.
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[53]
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PubMed ID 15313177
Journal Biochem Biophys Res Commun
Year 2004
Volume 322
Pages 88-92
Authors Schallreuter KU, Wazir U, Kothari S, Gibbons NC, Moore J, Wood JM
Title Human phenylalanine hydroxylase is activated by H2O2: a novel mechanism for increasing the L-tyrosine supply for melanogenesis in melanocytes.
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[54]
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Comments
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PubMed ID 15060071
Journal J Biol Chem
Year 2004
Volume 279
Pages 26571-80
Authors Stokka AJ, Carvalho RN, Barroso JF, Flatmark T
Title Probing the role of crystallographically defined/predicted hinge-bending regions in the substrate-induced global conformational transition and catalytic activation of human phenylalanine hydroxylase by single-site mutagenesis.
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[55]
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Comments
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PubMed ID 15557004
Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Year 2004
Volume 101
Pages 16903-8
Authors Erlandsen H, Pey AL, Gamez A, Perez B, Desviat LR, Aguado C, Koch R, Surendran S, Tyring S, Matalon R, Scriver CR, Ugarte M, Martinez A, Stevens RC
Title Correction of kinetic and stability defects by tetrahydrobiopterin in phenylketonuria patients with certain phenylalanine hydroxylase mutations.
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Comments
This enzyme is composed of the N-terminal regulatory domain and the C-terminal catalytic domain.
This enzyme catalyzes the following reaction:
(A) Sequential Oxygenation of Tetrahydrobiopterin and L-Phenylalanine by O2, giving 4a-hydroxytetrahydrobiopterin and L-Tyrosine:

Created Updated
2004-01-27 2009-02-26