IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 6.2.1.40

Accepted name: 4-hydroxybutyrate—CoA ligase (AMP-forming)

Reaction: ATP + 4-hydroxybutanoate + CoA = AMP + diphosphate + 4-hydroxybutanoyl-CoA

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Other name(s): 4-hydroxybutyrate-CoA synthetase (ambiguous); 4-hydroxybutyrate:CoA ligase (ambiguous); hbs (gene name); 4-hydroxybutyrate—CoA ligase

Systematic name: 4-hydroxybutanoate:CoA ligase (AMP-forming)

Comments: Isolated from the archaeon Metallosphaera sedula. Involved in the 3-hydroxypropanoate/4-hydroxybutanoate cycle. cf. EC 6.2.1.56, 4-hydroxybutyrate—CoA ligase (ADP-forming).

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References:

1. Ramos-Vera, W.H., Weiss, M., Strittmatter, E., Kockelkorn, D. and Fuchs, G. Identification of missing genes and enzymes for autotrophic carbon fixation in crenarchaeota. J. Bacteriol. 193 (2011) 1201-1211. [PMID: 21169482]

2. Hawkins, A.S., Han, Y., Bennett, R.K., Adams, M.W. and Kelly, R.M. Role of 4-hydroxybutyrate-CoA synthetase in the CO2 fixation cycle in thermoacidophilic archaea. J. Biol. Chem. 288 (2013) 4012-4022. [PMID: 23258541]

[EC 6.2.1.40 created 2014, modified 2019]


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