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Science 4 June 1993:
Vol. 260. no. 5113, pp. 1507 - 1510
DOI: 10.1126/science.8502995
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Science, Vol 260, Issue 5113, 1507-1510
Copyright © 1993 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Feedback regulation mechanisms for the control of GTP cyclohydrolase I activity

T Harada, H Kagamiyama, and K Hatakeyama

Department of Biochemistry, Osaka Medical College, Japan.

Guanosine triphosphate (GTP) cyclohydrolase I, the rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), is subject to feedback inhibition by BH4, a cofactor for phenylalanine hydroxylase. Inhibition was found to depend specifically on BH4 and the presence of another protein (p35). The inhibition occurred through BH4-dependent complex formation between p35 protein and GTP cyclohydrolase I. Furthermore, the inhibition was specifically reversed by phenylalanine, and, in conjunction with p35, phenylalanine reduced the cooperativity of GTP cyclohydrolase I. These findings also provide a molecular basis for high plasma BH4 concentrations observed in patients with hyperphenylalaninemia caused by phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency.


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