Phosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxylase, phosphoribosylaminoimidazole succinocarboxamide synthetase pseudogene 5 (PAICSP5)

Phosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxylase, phosphoribosylaminoimidazole succinocarboxamide synthetase pseudogene 5 (PAICSP5) is a nonfunctional genetic element classified as a pseudogene. Pseudogenes are sequences in the genome that are similar to known genes but typically do not encode functional proteins due to mutations, deletions, or lack of necessary regulatory elements. PAICSP5 is related by sequence to genes encoding enzymes involved in purine biosynthesis (specifically, phosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxylase and succinocarboxamide synthetase), but it does not express these enzymes and is not a target for drugs or considered in disease association or therapeutic research. If you are interested in therapeutically relevant targets, you may want to refer to the active form of the gene PAICS, which encodes a bifunctional enzyme involved in purine biosynthesis, but PAICSP5 itself is not functionally relevant.

Other names

PAICSP5processed pseudogenePAICS gene family

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