UniProt Protein Function: | Catalytic subunit of the molybdopterin synthase complex, a complex that catalyzes the conversion of precursor Z into molybdopterin. Acts by mediating the incorporation of 2 sulfur atoms from thiocarboxylated MOCS2A into precursor Z to generate a dithiolene group. |
NCBI Summary: | Eukaryotic molybdoenzymes use a unique molybdenum cofactor (MoCo) consisting of a pterin, termed molybdopterin, and the catalytically active metal molybdenum. MoCo is synthesized from precursor Z by the heterodimeric enzyme molybdopterin synthase. The large and small subunits of molybdopterin synthase are both encoded from this gene by overlapping open reading frames. The proteins were initially thought to be encoded from a bicistronic transcript. They are now thought to be encoded from monocistronic transcripts. Alternatively spliced transcripts have been found for this locus that encode the large and small subunits. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008] |
UniProt Code: | O96033 |
NCBI GenInfo Identifier: | 4758732 |
NCBI Gene ID: | 4338 |
NCBI Accession: | NP_004522 |
UniProt Secondary Accession: | O96033,Q6IAI3, |
UniProt Related Accession: | O96007,O96033 |
Molecular Weight: | 25 kDa (224aa) confirmed by MALDI-TOF |
NCBI Full Name: | molybdopterin synthase catalytic subunit large subunit MOCS2B |
NCBI Synonym Full Names: | molybdenum cofactor synthesis 2 |
NCBI Official Symbol: | MOCS2 |
NCBI Official Synonym Symbols: | MPTS; MCBPE; MOCO1; MOCODB |
NCBI Protein Information: | molybdopterin synthase catalytic subunit; molybdopterin synthase sulfur carrier subunit |
UniProt Protein Name: | Molybdopterin synthase catalytic subunit |
UniProt Synonym Protein Names: | MOCO1-B; Molybdenum cofactor synthesis protein 2 large subunit |
UniProt Gene Name: | MOCS2 |