IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 1.1.1.49

Accepted name: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (NADP+)

Reaction: D-glucose 6-phosphate + NADP+ = 6-phospho-D-glucono-1,5-lactone + NADPH + H+

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Other name(s): NADP-glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase; Zwischenferment; D-glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase; glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (NADP); NADP-dependent glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase; 6-phosphoglucose dehydrogenase; Entner-Doudoroff enzyme; glucose-6-phosphate 1-dehydrogenase; G6PDH; GPD; glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase

Systematic name: D-glucose-6-phosphate:NADP+ 1-oxidoreductase

Comments: The enzyme catalyses a step of the pentose phosphate pathway. The enzyme is specific for NADP+. cf. EC 1.1.1.363, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase [NAD(P)+] and EC 1.1.1.388, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (NAD+).

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, GTD, KEGG, MetaCyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 9001-40-5

References:

1. Engel, H.J., Domschke, W., Alberti, M. and Domagk, G.F. Protein structure and enzymatic activity. II. Purification and properties of a crystalline glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Candida utilis. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 191 (1969) 509-516. [PMID: 5363983]

2. Glaser, L. and Brown, D.H. Purification and properties of D-glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. J. Biol. Chem. 216 (1955) 67-79. [PMID: 13252007]

3. Julian, G.R., Wolfe, R.G. and Reithel, F.J. The enzymes of mammary gland. II. The preparation of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase. J. Biol. Chem. 236 (1961) 754-758. [PMID: 13790996]

4. Noltmann, E.A., Gubler, C.J. and Kuby, S.A. Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (Zwischenferment). I. Isolation of the crystalline enzyme from yeast. J. Biol. Chem. 236 (1961) 1225-1230. [PMID: 13729473]

5. Miclet, E., Stoven, V., Michels, P.A., Opperdoes, F.R., Lallemand, J.-Y. and Duffieux, F. NMR spectroscopic analysis of the first two steps of the pentose-phosphate pathway elucidates the role of 6-phosphogluconolactonase. J. Biol. Chem. 276 (2001) 34840-34846. [PMID: 11457850]

6. Olavarria, K., Valdes, D. and Cabrera, R. The cofactor preference of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli - modeling the physiological production of reduced cofactors. FEBS J. 279 (2012) 2296-2309. [PMID: 22519976]

7. Hansen, T., Schlichting, B. and Schonheit, P. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima: expression of the g6pd gene and characterization of an extremely thermophilic enzyme. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 216 (2002) 249-253. [PMID: 12435510]

8. Ibraheem, O., Adewale, I.O. and Afolayan, A. Purification and properties of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Aspergillus aculeatus. J. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 38 (2005) 584-590. [PMID: 16202239]

9. Iyer, R.B., Wang, J. and Bachas, L.G. Cloning, expression, and characterization of the gsdA gene encoding thermophilic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Aquifex aeolicus. Extremophiles 6 (2002) 283-289. [PMID: 12215813]

10. Cho, S.W. and Joshi, J.G. Characterization of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase isozymes from human and pig brain. Neuroscience 38 (1990) 819-828. [PMID: 2270145]

[EC 1.1.1.49 created 1961, modified 2013, modified 2015]


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