Purine nucleoside phosphorylase 2

UniProtKB accession:  P45563

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UniProtKB description:  The purine nucleoside phosphorylases catalyze the phosphorolytic breakdown of the N-glycosidic bond in the beta-(deoxy)ribonucleoside molecules, with the formation of the corresponding free purine bases and pentose-1-phosphate. This protein can degrade all purine nucleosides including xanthosine, inosine and guanosine, but cannot cleave adenosine, deoxyadenosine or hypoxanthine arabinoside. Has a preference for the neutral over the monoanionic form of xanthosine.