Cyclebase 3.0

Cell-cycle regulation database

URA5 [YML106W]

Major orotate phosphoribosyltransferase (OPRTase) isozyme; catalyzes the fifth enzymatic step in de novo biosynthesis of pyrimidines, converting orotate into orotidine-5'-phosphate; URA5 has a paralog, URA10, that arose from the whole genome duplication; Belongs to the purine/pyrimidine phosphoribosyltransferase family. PyrE subfamily.

Synonyms:  URA5,  URA5p,  P13298,  P13298p,  PYR5 ...

Linkouts:  STRING  UniProt