Dihydrofolate reductase

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Dihydrofolate reductase
Ribbon diagram of human dihydrofolate reductase in complex with folate (blue). From PDB 1DRF.
Available structures: 1boz, 1dhf, 1dlr, 1dls, 1drf, 1hfp, 1hfq, 1hfr, 1kms, 1kmv, 1mvs, 1mvt, 1ohj, 1ohk, 1pd8, 1pd9, 1pdb, 1s3u, 1s3v, 1s3w, 1u71, 1u72, 1yho, 2c2s, 2c2t, 2dhf
Identifiers
Symbol(s) DHFR;
External IDs OMIM: 126060 MGI: 94890 Homologene: 56470
EC number 1.5.1.3
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 1719 13361
Ensembl na ENSMUSG00000021707
Uniprot na Q544T5
Refseq NM_000791 (mRNA)
NP_000782 (protein)		 NM_010049 (mRNA)
NP_034179 (protein)
Location na Chr 13: 93.46 - 93.49 Mb
Pubmed search [1] [2]

Dihydrofolate reductase, or DHFR, reduces dihydrofolic acid to tetrahydrofolic acid, using NADPH as electron donor, which can be converted to the kinds of tetrahydrofolate cofactors used in 1-carbon transfer chemistry.


Dihydrofolate reductase converts dihydrofolate into tetrahydrofolate, a methyl group shuttle required for the de novo synthesis of purines, thymidylic acid, and certain amino acids. While the functional dihydrofolate reductase gene has been mapped to chromosome 5, multiple intronless processed pseudogenes or dihydrofolate reductase-like genes have been identified on separate chromosomes. Dihydrofolate reductase deficiency has been linked to megaloblastic anemia.[1]

Folic acid

Dihydrofolic acid

Tetrahydrofolic acid
Tetrahydrofolate synthesis pathway
Tetrahydrofolate synthesis pathway


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Because tetrahydrofolate, the product of this reaction, is the active form of folate in humans, inhibition of DHFR can cause functional folate deficiency. Because folate is needed by rapidly dividing cells to make thymine, this effect may be therapeutic. For example, methotrexate is used as cancer chemotherapy because it can prevent neoplastic cells from dividing.

A variety of drugs act on dihydrofolate reductase:

Deficiency of the enzyme may be a cause of folate deficiency, and therefore of megaloblastic anemia. Treatment is with reduced forms of folic acid.

  1. ^ Entrez Gene: DHFR dihydrofolate reductase.

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  • Bonifaci N, Sitia R, Rubartelli A (1996). "Nuclear translocation of an exogenous fusion protein containing HIV Tat requires unfolding.". AIDS 9 (9): 995-1000. PMID 8527095. 
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CH-NH oxidoreductases (EC 1.5)
1.5.1 - NAD or NADP acceptor Dihydrofolate reductase - Saccharopine dehydrogenase - Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase
1.5.3 - oxygen acceptor Dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase - Sarcosine oxidase
1.5.5 - quinone acceptor Electron-transferring-flavoprotein dehydrogenase
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Metabolism of vitamins, coenzymes, and cofactors
Folic acid Dihydropteroate synthetase - Dihydrofolate reductase - Serine hydroxymethyltransferase
Vitamin D 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 1-alpha-Hydroxylase
Thiamine Thiamine pyrophosphokinase
Vitamin C L-gulonolactone oxidase
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