Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase
"Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An enzyme with high affinity for carbon dioxide. It catalyzes irreversibly the formation of oxaloacetate from phosphoenolpyruvate and carbon dioxide. This fixation of carbon dioxide in several bacteria and some plants is the first step in the biosynthesis of glucose. EC 4.1.1.31.
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D010730
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.520.224.125.650
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Wicheanvonagoon S, Arinze IJ. Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from guinea-pig liver mitochondria. Immunological evidence for increase in enzyme amount during neonatal development. Biochem J. 1984 Jul 01; 221(1):105-11.