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ArticleBioscience reports2021

Commentary on Urinary l-erythro-β-hydroxyasparagine: a novel serine racemase inhibitor and substrate of the Zn2+-dependent d-serine dehydratase.

Fabio K Tamaki

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Article in Bioscience reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Fabio K TamakiDrug Discovery Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee DD1 5, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-2515-8202
University of Dundee · GB

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Abstract

The analysis of the urine contents can be informative of physiological homoeostasis, and it has been speculated that the levels of urinary d-serine (d-ser) could inform about neurological and renal disorders. By analysing the levels of urinary d-ser using a d-ser dehydratase (DSD) enzyme, Ito et al. (Biosci. Rep.(2021) 41, BSR20210260) have described abundant levels of l-erythro-β-hydroxyasparagine (l-β-EHAsn), a non-proteogenic amino acid which is also a newly described substrate for DSD. The data presented support the endogenous production l-β-EHAsn, with its concentration significantly correlating with the concentration of creatinine in urine. Taken together, these results could raise speculations that l-β-EHAsn might have unexplored important biological roles. It has been demonstrated that l-β-EHAsn also inhibits serine racemase with Ki values (40 μM) similar to its concentration in urine (50 μM). Given that serine racemase is the enzyme involved in the synthesis of d-ser, and l-β-EHAsn is also a substrate for DSD, further investigations could verify if this amino acid would be involved in the metabolic regulation of pathways involving d-ser.

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Hydro-LyasesSerineAsparagineRacemases and EpimerasesSerine RacemaseZinc3-hydroxyasparagineAsparagineD-serine dehydrataseHydro-LyasesRacemases and EpimerasesSerineSerine RacemaseZincamino acidsd-serineserine racemase

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PMID34874398
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