UniProt functional annotation for P0AEZ1

UniProt code: P0AEZ1.

Organism: Escherichia coli (strain K12).
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia.
 
Function: Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase required to generate the methyl groups necessary for methionine synthetase to convert homocysteine to methionine. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:14275142}.
 
Catalytic activity: Reaction=(6S)-5-methyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate + NADP(+) = (6R)-5,10- methylene-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate + H(+) + NADPH; Xref=Rhea:RHEA:19817, ChEBI:CHEBI:15378, ChEBI:CHEBI:15636, ChEBI:CHEBI:18608, ChEBI:CHEBI:57783, ChEBI:CHEBI:58349; EC=1.5.1.20; Evidence={ECO:0000269|PubMed:11371182, ECO:0000269|PubMed:14275142, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19610625};
Catalytic activity: Reaction=(6S)-5-methyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate + NAD(+) = (6R)-5,10- methylene-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate + H(+) + NADH; Xref=Rhea:RHEA:19821, ChEBI:CHEBI:15378, ChEBI:CHEBI:15636, ChEBI:CHEBI:18608, ChEBI:CHEBI:57540, ChEBI:CHEBI:57945; EC=1.5.1.20; Evidence={ECO:0000269|PubMed:11371182, ECO:0000269|PubMed:14275142, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19610625};
Cofactor: Name=FAD; Xref=ChEBI:CHEBI:57692; Evidence={ECO:0000269|PubMed:10201405, ECO:0000269|PubMed:11371182, ECO:0000269|PubMed:14275142, ECO:0000269|PubMed:16114881, ECO:0000269|PubMed:16605249, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19610625};
Biophysicochemical properties: Kinetic parameters: KM=17 uM for NADPH {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10201405, ECO:0000269|PubMed:14275142}; KM=3.9 uM for 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10201405, ECO:0000269|PubMed:14275142}; pH dependence: Optimum pH is 6.3-6.4. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10201405, ECO:0000269|PubMed:14275142};
Pathway: One-carbon metabolism; tetrahydrofolate interconversion.
Subunit: Homotetramer. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10201405, ECO:0000269|PubMed:16114881, ECO:0000269|PubMed:16605249}.
Induction: Repressed by methionine. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:14275142}.
Similarity: Belongs to the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.