Molybdopterin synthase

Molybdopterin synthase is an enzyme required to sythesize molybdenum cofactor (MoCo) from precursor Z (now known as cyclic pyranopterin monophosphate).

It is heterodimeric and coded for by the MOCS2 gene.^[1]

References

1. ^ Sloan, J; Kinghorn, JR; Unkles, SE (1999). "The two subunits of human molybdopterin synthase: evidence for a bicistronic messenger RNA with overlapping reading frames". Nucleic Acids Research 27 (3): 854–8. doi:10.1093/nar/27.3.854. PMC 148257. PMID 9889283. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=148257.