Function
Nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDK) catalyzes the exchange of phosphate between nucleoside triphosphate and nucleoside diphosphate. This reaction is a multi-step reaction which is used for the synthesis of nucleoside triphosphates other than ATP[1]. NDK provides nucleoside triphosphates for nucleic acid synthesis, CTP for lipid synthesis, UTP for polysaccharide synthesis and GTP for protein elongation, signal transduction and microtubule polymerization.
Disease
NDKB deficiency causes diabetes-like vascular pathology[2].
Structural highlights
The biological assembly of Human nucleoside diphosphate kinase is . The NDK-adenine structure shows the [3]. Water molecules are shown as red spheres. .
3D structures of nucleoside diphosphate kinase
Nucleoside diphosphate kinase 3D structures