What it does, reaction by reaction
1 reactions
Deoxyribonucleotide Formation (Ribonucleotide Reductase pathway and thymidylate synthesis) Nucleotide Metabolism · Cytosol
step 4
Irreversible/directional
dUDP → dUTP → dUMP
› Notes
NDPK phosphorylates dUDP to dUTP, and dUTPase hydrolyzes dUTP + H2O → dUMP + PPi. dUTPase is functionally crucial: it creates dUMP while minimizing dUTP incorporation into DNA, which would otherwise initiate repeated uracil-excision repair.
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What accelerates and inhibits it
Regulation is pathway-specific, so each context is listed separately
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