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ENTPD5

Ectonucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 5 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ENTPD5 gene.[1][2][3]

ENTPD5 is similar to E-type nucleotidases (NTPases)/ecto-ATPase/apyrases. NTPases, such as CD39, mediate catabolism of extracellular nucleotides. ENTPD5 contains 4 apyrase-conserved regions which is characteristic of NTPases.[3]

References

References

  1. Chadwick BP, Frischauf AM (Oct 1997). “Cloning and mapping of a human and mouse gene with homology to ecto-ATPase genes”. Mamm Genome. 8 (9): 668–72. doi:10.1007/s003359900534. PMID 9271669.
  2. Chadwick BP, Frischauf AM (Oct 1998). “The CD39-like gene family: identification of three new human members (CD39L2, CD39L3, and CD39L4), their murine homologues, and a member of the gene family from Drosophila melanogaster”. Genomics. 50 (3): 357–67. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5317. PMID 9676430.
  3. 3.0 3.1 “Entrez Gene: ENTPD5 ectonucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 5”.
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