FAD synthetase | |||||||||
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![]() crystal structure of flavin binding to fad synthetase from thermotoga maritina | |||||||||
Identifiers | |||||||||
Symbol | FAD_syn | ||||||||
Pfam | PF06574 | ||||||||
Pfam clan | CL0119 | ||||||||
InterPro | IPR015864 | ||||||||
SCOP2 | 1n05 / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||
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The prokaryotic riboflavin biosynthesis protein is a bifunctional enzyme found in bacteria that catalyzes the phosphorylation of riboflavin into flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and the adenylylation of FMN into flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD). It consists of a C-terminal riboflavin kinase and an N-terminal FMN-adenylyltransferase. This bacterial protein is functionally similar to the monofunctional riboflavin kinases and FMN-adenylyltransferases of eukaryotic organisms, but only the riboflavin kinases are structurally homologous.