This family of proteins represent the nicotinate-nucleotide- dimethylbenzimidazole phosphoribosyltransferase (NN:DBI PRT) enzymes involved in dimethylbenzimidazole synthesis. This function is essential to de novo cobalamin (vitamin B12) production in ...
This family of proteins represent the nicotinate-nucleotide- dimethylbenzimidazole phosphoribosyltransferase (NN:DBI PRT) enzymes involved in dimethylbenzimidazole synthesis. This function is essential to de novo cobalamin (vitamin B12) production in bacteria. Nicotinate mononucleotide (NaMN):5,6-dimethylbenzimidazole (DMB) phosphoribosyltransferase (CobT) from Salmonella enterica plays a central role in the synthesis of alpha-ribazole-5'-phosphate, an intermediate for the lower ligand of cobalamin [2].
Nicotinate mononucleotide:5,6- dimethylbenzimidazole (DMB) phosphoribosyltransferase (CobT) is crucial in the synthesis of alpha-ribose-5'-phosphate, a precursor to the lower ligand of colbamin. The biosynthesis of colbamin requires more than 25 committed enzymes, and the biosynthetic pathway has received much interest because of its complexity. Colbamin synthesis is also of interest in evolutionary biology because of its utilisation by early forms of bacteria and Archaea.
The enzyme has also been shown to act on benzimidazole, and the clostridial enzyme acts on adenine to form 7-alpha-D-ribosyladenine 5'-phosphate.