OAZ1

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Ornithine decarboxylase antizyme is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the OAZ1 gene.[1][2][3]

Ornithine decarboxylase catalyzes the conversion of ornithine to putrescine in the first and apparently rate-limiting step in polyamine biosynthesis. The ornithine decarboxylase antizymes play a role in the regulation of polyamine synthesis by binding to and inhibiting ornithine decarboxylase. Antizyme expression is auto-regulated by polyamine-enhanced translational frameshifting. The antizyme encoded by this gene inhibits ornithine decarboxylase and accelerates its degradation.[3]

References

  1. Tewari DS, Qian Y, Thornton RD, Pieringer J, Taub R, Mochan E, Tewari M (Feb 1995). "Molecular cloning and sequencing of a human cDNA encoding ornithine decarboxylase antizyme". Biochim Biophys Acta. 1209 (2): 293–5. doi:10.1016/0167-4838(94)90199-6. PMID 7811704.
  2. Matsufuji S, Inazawa J, Hayashi T, Miyazaki Y, Ichiba T, Furusaka A, Matsufuji T, Atkins JF, Gesteland RF, Murakami Y, Hayashi S (Mar 1997). "Assignment of the human antizyme gene (OAZ) to chromosome 19p13.3 by fluorescence in situ hybridization". Genomics. 38 (1): 102–104. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0601. PMID 8954789.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Entrez Gene: OAZ1 ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 1".

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