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GDP-D-glucose phosphorylase

Class of enzymes

Summary

Class of enzymes

Field	Value
Name	GDP-D-glucose phosphorylase
EC_number	2.7.7.78

GDP-D-glucose phosphorylase () is an enzyme with systematic name GDP:alpha-D-glucose 1-phosphate guanylyltransferase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

: GDP-alpha-D-glucose + phosphate \rightleftharpoons alpha-D-glucose 1-phosphate + GDP

The enzyme may be involved in prevention of misincorporation of glucose in place of mannose residues into glycoconjugates.

References

(June 2011). "A novel GDP-D-glucose phosphorylase involved in quality control of the nucleoside diphosphate sugar pool in Caenorhabditis elegans and mammals". The Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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