Reaction: a purine nucleoside + H2O = D-ribose + a purine base
Other name(s): nucleosidase (misleading); purine β-ribosidase; purine nucleoside hydrolase; purine ribonucleosidase; ribonucleoside hydrolase (misleading); nucleoside hydrolase (misleading); N-ribosyl purine ribohydrolase; nucleosidase g; N-D-ribosylpurine ribohydrolase; inosine-adenosine-guanosine preferring nucleoside hydrolase; purine-specific nucleoside N-ribohydrolase; IAG-nucleoside hydrolase; IAG-NH
Systematic name: purine-nucleoside ribohydrolase
Comments: The enzyme from the bacterium Ochrobactrum anthropi specifically catalyses the irreversible N-riboside hydrolysis of purine nucleosides. Pyrimidine nucleosides, purine and pyrimidine nucleotides, NAD+, NADP+ and nicotinaminde mononucleotide are not substrates [6].
Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, Metacyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 9025-44-9
References:
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6. Ogawa, J., Takeda, S., Xie, S.X., Hatanaka, H., Ashikari, T., Amachi, T. and Shimizu, S. Purification, characterization, and gene cloning of purine nucleosidase from Ochrobactrum anthropi. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67 (2001) 1783-1787. [PMID: 11282633]
7. Versées, W., Decanniere, K., Van Holsbeke, E., Devroede, N. and Steyaert, J. Enzyme-substrate interactions in the purine-specific nucleoside hydrolase from Trypanosoma vivax. J. Biol. Chem. 277 (2002) 15938-15946. [PMID: 11854281]
8. Mazumder-Shivakumar, D. and Bruice, T.C. Computational study of IAG-nucleoside hydrolase: determination of the preferred ground state conformation and the role of active site residues. Biochemistry 44 (2005) 7805-7817. [PMID: 15909995]