Abstract
The biosynthesis of the first pyrimidine nucleotide, UMP, universally requires six enzymes (Reichard 1959): a glutamine-utilizing carbamyl-P synthetase (Levenberg 1962); aspartate transcarbamylase; dihydroorotase; a dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (Taylor et al. 1966) that couples with the respiratory chain (and not with NAD); orotate phos-phoribosyltransferase and orotidylate decarboxylase (Fig. 1).
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Jones, M.E. (1980). The Genes for and Regulation of the Enzyme Activities of two Multifunctional Proteins Required for the De Novo Pathway for UMP Biosynthesis in Mammals. In: Chapeville, F., Haenni, AL. (eds) Chemical Recognition in Biology. Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81503-4_13
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