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Thymidine phosphorylase

1 reactions · 1 pathways

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What it does, reaction by reaction

1 reactions

Pyrimidine Degradation Nucleotide Metabolism · Cytosol

step 5 Irreversible/directional

Thymidine → thymine

Converts Thymidine into Thymine

Notes

Thymidine phosphorylase catalyzes thymidine + Pi ⇌ thymine + 2-deoxyribose 1-phosphate. The reaction also participates in thymidine salvage, depending on metabolite concentrations.

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What accelerates and inhibits it

Regulation is pathway-specific, so each context is listed separately

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No regulation recorded for this enzyme in the source documents.

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