The taxonomic range for the selected organisms is: Drosophila melanogaster The expected taxonomic range for this enzyme is: Bacteria, Eukaryota, Archaea
the enzyme exhibits 40fold higher activity for guanine than for 7,8-dihydropterin. Guanine deaminase functions as dihydropterin deaminase in the biosynthesis of aurodrosopterin
the enzyme has no deaminase activities for other dihydropteridines such as 7,8-dihydrobiopterin, 7,8-dihydroneopterin, and sepiapterin, it also does not show deaminase activity with fully oxidized pteridines such as pterin, biopterin, neopterin, monapterin, xanthopterin, isoxanthopterin, aminopterin, 6-formylpterin, 6-carboxypterin, and 6-hydroxymethylpterin. Moreover the enzyme does not use folic acid, pyrimidodiazepine, drosopterin, or isodrosopterin as a substrate. No activity is found for adenine and adenosine
at concentrations of 1 and 10 mM, adenine shows weak inhibitory effect on both, guanine deaminase activity (7.1 and 24% inhibition) and dihydropterin deaminase activity (10.3 and 14.1% inhibition)
at concentrations of 1 and 10 mM, adenosine shows weak inhibitory effec on both, guanine deaminase activity (5.6 and 22.7% inhibition) and dihydropterin deaminase activity (11.5 and 16.7% inhibition)
at concentrations of 1 and 10 mM, potassium fluoride shows weak inhibitory effect on both, guanine deaminase activity (5.2 and 11% inhibition) and dihydropterin deaminase activity (6.2 and 10.1% inhibition)
at concentrations of 1 and 10 mM, guanosine shows weak inhibitory effect on both, guanine deaminase activity (1.8 and 12.5% inhibition) and dihydropterin deaminase activity (3.8 and 5.1% inhibition)
KCN inhibits dihydropterin deaminase activity strongly 98.6% inhibition at 10 mM whereas it has almost no inhibitory effect on guanine deaminase activity at the same concentration
at concentrations of 1 and 10 mM, allopurinol shows weak inhibitory effect on both, guanine deaminase activity (4.5 and 17.8% inhibition) and dihydropterin deaminase activity (3.2 and 10% inhibition)
at concentrations of 1 and 10 mM, potassium fluoride shows weak inhibitory effect on both, guanine deaminase activity (3.6 and 8.1% inhibition) and dihydropterin deaminase activity (0 and 1.2% inhibition)