CAD (protein)

carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 2, aspartate transcarbamylase, and dihydroorotase
Identifiers
Symbol	CAD
Entrez	790
HUGO	1424
OMIM	114010
RefSeq	NM_004341
UniProt	P27708
Other data
EC number	2.1.3.2
Locus	Chr. 2 p21

CAD protein (carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 2, aspartate transcarbamylase, and dihydroorotase) is a trifunctional multi-domain enzyme involved in the first three steps of pyrimidine biosynthesis. De-novo synthesis starts with cytosolic carbamoylphosphate synthetase II which uses glutamine, carbon dioxide and ATP. This enzyme is inhibited by uridine triphosphate (feedback inhibition).

In 2015, the first observed pathological mutations of CAD were found in a four-year-old boy.^[1]

References

CAD+trifunctional+enzyme at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Human CAD genome location and CAD gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.

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v t e Enzymes: multienzyme complexes
Photosynthesis	Photosynthetic reaction center complex proteins Photosystem I II
Dehydrogenase	Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex E1 E2 E3 Oxoglutarate dehydrogenase OGDH DLST DLD Branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase complex BCKDHA BCKDHB DBT DLD
Other	CAD Carbamoyl phosphate synthase II Aspartate carbamoyltransferase Dihydroorotase Cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme Cytochrome b6f complex Electron transport chain Fatty acid synthetase complex Glycine decarboxylase complex Mitochondrial trifunctional protein HADHA HADHB Phosphoenolpyruvate sugar phosphotransferase system Polyketide synthase Sucrase-isomaltase complex Tryptophan synthase

v t e Hydrolases: carbon-nitrogen non-peptide (EC 3.5)
3.5.1: Linear amides / Amidohydrolases	Asparaginase Glutaminase Urease Biotinidase Aspartoacylase Ceramidase Aspartylglucosaminidase Fatty acid amide hydrolase Histone deacetylase Sirtuin
3.5.2: Cyclic amides/ Amidohydrolases	Barbiturase Beta-lactamase
3.5.3: Linear amidines/ Ureohydrolases	Arginase Agmatinase Protein-arginine deiminase
3.5.4: Cyclic amidines/ Aminohydrolases	Guanine deaminase Adenosine deaminase AMP deaminase Inosine monophosphate synthase DCMP deaminase GTP cyclohydrolase I Cytidine deaminase AICDA Activation-induced cytidine deaminase
3.5.5: Nitriles/ Aminohydrolases	Nitrilase
3.5.99: Other	Riboflavinase Thiaminase II

v t e Enzymes
Activity	Active site Binding site Catalytic triad Oxyanion hole Enzyme promiscuity Catalytically perfect enzyme Coenzyme Cofactor Enzyme catalysis
Regulation	Allosteric regulation Cooperativity Enzyme inhibitor Enzyme activator
Classification	EC number Enzyme superfamily Enzyme family List of enzymes
Kinetics	Enzyme kinetics Eadie–Hofstee diagram Hanes–Woolf plot Lineweaver–Burk plot Michaelis–Menten kinetics
Types	EC1 Oxidoreductases (list) EC2 Transferases (list) EC3 Hydrolases (list) EC4 Lyases (list) EC5 Isomerases (list) EC6 Ligases (list)