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Creation Date2012-05-31 13:02:47 -0600
Update Date2015-09-17 15:41:07 -0600
Secondary Accession Numbers
  • ECMDB00972
Identification
Name:N10-Formyl-THF
DescriptionN10-Formyl-THF is a substrate for Trifunctional purine biosynthetic protein adenosine-3, Bifunctional methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase/cyclohydrolase, 10-formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase, Folylpolyglutamate synthase, Bifunctional purine biosynthesis protein PURH and C-1-tetrahydrofolate synthase (cytoplasmic).
Structure
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Synonyms:
  • 10-Formyl-(6RS)-tetrahydrofolate
  • 10-Formyl-(6RS)-tetrahydrofolic acid
  • 10-Formyl-H4PteGlu1
  • 10-formyl-H4PteGlu1
  • 10-Formyl-tetrahydrofolate
  • 10-Formyl-tetrahydrofolic acid
  • 10-Formyl-THF
  • 10-Formyltetrahydrofolate
  • 10-Formyltetrahydrofolic acid
  • 10-Formyltetrahydropteroylglutamate
  • 10-Formyltetrahydropteroylglutamic acid
  • 10-Fthf
  • N-[p-[N-[(2-Amino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-4-hydroxy-6-pteridinyl)methyl]formamido]benzoyl]-Glutamate
  • N-[p-[N-[(2-Amino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-4-hydroxy-6-pteridinyl)methyl]formamido]benzoyl]-Glutamic acid
  • N-[p-[N-[(2-Amino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-4-hydroxy-6-pteridinyl)methyl]formamido]benzoyl]-L-Glutamate
  • N-[p-[N-[(2-Amino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-4-hydroxy-6-pteridinyl)methyl]formamido]benzoyl]-L-Glutamic acid
  • N10-Formyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate
  • N10-Formyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolic acid
  • N10-formyl-H4F
  • N10-formyl-tetrahydrofolate
  • N10-formyl-tetrahydrofolic acid
  • N10-formyl-THF
  • N10-Formyltetrahydrofolate
  • N10-Formyltetrahydrofolic acid
  • N10-Formyltetrahydropteroylglutamate
  • N10-Formyltetrahydropteroylglutamic acid
  • N10-formyl-H4F
  • N10-formyl-tetrahydrofolate
  • N10-formyl-THF
Chemical Formula:C20H23N7O7
Weight:Average: 473.4393
Monoisotopic: 473.165896125
InChI Key:AUFGTPPARQZWDO-YUZLPWPTSA-N
InChI:InChI=1S/C20H23N7O7/c21-20-25-16-15(18(32)26-20)23-11(7-22-16)8-27(9-28)12-3-1-10(2-4-12)17(31)24-13(19(33)34)5-6-14(29)30/h1-4,9,11,13,23H,5-8H2,(H,24,31)(H,29,30)(H,33,34)(H4,21,22,25,26,32)/t11?,13-/m0/s1
CAS number:2800-34-2
IUPAC Name:(2S)-2-{[4-(N-{[(6R)-2-amino-4-oxo-3,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydropteridin-6-yl]methyl}formamido)phenyl]formamido}pentanedioic acid
Traditional IUPAC Name:10-formyltetrahydrofolic acid
SMILES:NC1=NC(=O)C2=C(NCC(CN(C=O)C3=CC=C(C=C3)C(=O)N[C@@H](CCC(O)=O)C(O)=O)N2)N1
Chemical Taxonomy
Description belongs to the class of organic compounds known as tetrahydrofolic acids. These are heterocyclic compounds based on the 5,6,7,8-tetrahydropteroic acid skeleton conjugated with at least one L-glutamic acid unit.
KingdomOrganic compounds
Super ClassOrganoheterocyclic compounds
ClassPteridines and derivatives
Sub ClassPterins and derivatives
Direct ParentTetrahydrofolic acids
Alternative Parents
Substituents
  • Tetrahydrofolic acid
  • Glutamic acid or derivatives
  • N-acyl-alpha amino acid or derivatives
  • N-acyl-alpha-amino acid
  • Hippuric acid
  • Hippuric acid or derivatives
  • Acylaminobenzoic acid or derivatives
  • Alpha-amino acid or derivatives
  • Anilide
  • Benzoic acid or derivatives
  • Benzamide
  • Benzoyl
  • Pyrimidone
  • Aminopyrimidine
  • Secondary aliphatic/aromatic amine
  • Dicarboxylic acid or derivatives
  • Benzenoid
  • Pyrimidine
  • Monocyclic benzene moiety
  • Heteroaromatic compound
  • Vinylogous amide
  • Tertiary carboxylic acid amide
  • Amino acid or derivatives
  • Amino acid
  • Carboxamide group
  • Secondary carboxylic acid amide
  • Azacycle
  • Carboxylic acid
  • Carboxylic acid derivative
  • Secondary amine
  • Organic oxygen compound
  • Organic nitrogen compound
  • Carbonyl group
  • Hydrocarbon derivative
  • Amine
  • Organic oxide
  • Organopnictogen compound
  • Primary amine
  • Organooxygen compound
  • Organonitrogen compound
  • Aromatic heteropolycyclic compound
Molecular FrameworkAromatic heteropolycyclic compounds
External Descriptors
Physical Properties
State:Solid
Charge:-2
Melting point:Not Available
Experimental Properties:
PropertyValueSource
Predicted Properties
PropertyValueSource
Water Solubility0.35 g/LALOGPS
logP-1.8ALOGPS
logP-3.4ChemAxon
logS-3.1ALOGPS
pKa (Strongest Acidic)2.82ChemAxon
pKa (Strongest Basic)4.47ChemAxon
Physiological Charge-2ChemAxon
Hydrogen Acceptor Count11ChemAxon
Hydrogen Donor Count7ChemAxon
Polar Surface Area215.55 ŲChemAxon
Rotatable Bond Count9ChemAxon
Refractivity124.88 m³·mol⁻¹ChemAxon
Polarizability46.63 ųChemAxon
Number of Rings3ChemAxon
Bioavailability0ChemAxon
Rule of FiveYesChemAxon
Ghose FilterYesChemAxon
Veber's RuleYesChemAxon
MDDR-like RuleYesChemAxon
Biological Properties
Cellular Locations:Cytoplasm
Reactions:
Water + 5,10-Methenyltetrahydrofolate <> N10-Formyl-THF + Hydrogen ion
N10-Formyl-THF + Water <> Formic acid + Hydrogen ion + Tetrahydrofolic acid
N10-Formyl-THF + Uridine 5''-diphospho-{beta}-4-deoxy-4-amino-L-arabinose <> Hydrogen ion + Tetrahydrofolic acid + Uridine 5''-diphospho-{beta}-4-deoxy-4-formamido-L-arabinose
N10-Formyl-THF + Glycineamideribotide <> 5'-Phosphoribosyl-N-formylglycineamide + Hydrogen ion + Tetrahydrofolic acid
N10-Formyl-THF + L-Methionyl-tRNA (Met) > N-Formylmethionyl-tRNA + Hydrogen ion + Tetrahydrofolic acid
N10-Formyl-THF + Phosphoribosyl formamidocarboxamide <> Phosphoribosyl formamidocarboxamide + Tetrahydrofolic acid
N10-Formyl-THF + Water <> Formic acid + Tetrahydrofolic acid
L-Methionyl-tRNA + N10-Formyl-THF <> Tetrahydrofolic acid + N-Formylmethionyl-tRNA
N10-Formyl-THF + Glycineamideribotide <> Tetrahydrofolic acid + 5'-Phosphoribosyl-N-formylglycineamide
N10-Formyl-THF + AICAR <> Tetrahydrofolic acid + Phosphoribosyl formamidocarboxamide
N10-Formyl-THF + Uridine 5''-diphospho-{beta}-4-deoxy-4-amino-L-arabinose <> Tetrahydrofolic acid + Uridine 5''-diphospho-{beta}-4-deoxy-4-formamido-L-arabinose
Adenosine triphosphate + Formic acid + Tetrahydrofolic acid > ADP + Phosphate + N10-Formyl-THF
Water + N10-Formyl-THF > Hydrogen ion + Tetrahydrofolic acid + Formic acid
Uridine 5''-diphospho-{beta}-4-deoxy-4-amino-L-arabinose + N10-Formyl-THF > Hydrogen ion + Uridine 5''-diphospho-{beta}-4-deoxy-4-formamido-L-arabinose + Tetrahydrofolic acid
N10-Formyl-THF + 4-Amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinose > Tetrahydrofolic acid + UDP-4-Deoxy-4-formamido-beta-L-arabinose
N10-Formyl-THF + L-methionyl-tRNA(fMet) > Tetrahydrofolic acid + N-formylmethionyl-tRNA(fMet)
5,10-Methenyltetrahydrofolate + Water > N10-Formyl-THF
N10-Formyl-THF + 5'-Phospho-ribosylglycinamide > Tetrahydrofolic acid + 5'-phosphoribosyl-N-formylglycinamide
N10-Formyl-THF + AICAR > Tetrahydrofolic acid + Phosphoribosyl formamidocarboxamide
N10-Formyl-THF + Water > Formic acid + Tetrahydrofolic acid
Tetrahydrofolic acid + FAICAR + Tetrahydrofolic acid > 10-Formyltetrahydrofolate + AICAR + N10-Formyl-THF
Tetrahydrofolic acid + 5'-Phosphoribosyl-N-formylglycinamide + Tetrahydrofolic acid + 5'-Phosphoribosyl-N-formylglycineamide > 10-Formyltetrahydrofolate + Glycineamideribotide + N10-Formyl-THF + Glycineamideribotide
Formic acid + Tetrahydrofolic acid + Tetrahydrofolic acid > Water + 10-Formyltetrahydrofolate + N10-Formyl-THF
Tetrahydrofolic acid + N-formylmethionyl-tRNA(fMet) + Tetrahydrofolic acid L-methionyl-tRNA(Met) + 10-Formyltetrahydrofolate + N10-Formyl-THF
Uridine 5''-diphospho-{beta}-4-deoxy-4-amino-L-arabinose + an N10-formyl-tetrahydrofolate + N10-Formyl-THF > UDP-4-Deoxy-4-formamido-beta-L-arabinose + Hydrogen ion + a tetrahydrofolate + Tetrahydrofolic acid

SMPDB Pathways:
One Carbon Pool by Folate IPW001735 ThumbThumb?image type=greyscaleThumb?image type=simple
One carbon pool by folatePW000773 ThumbThumb?image type=greyscaleThumb?image type=simple
polymyxin resistancePW002052 ThumbThumb?image type=greyscaleThumb?image type=simple
purine nucleotides de novo biosynthesisPW000910 ThumbThumb?image type=greyscaleThumb?image type=simple
purine nucleotides de novo biosynthesis 2PW002033 ThumbThumb?image type=greyscaleThumb?image type=simple
KEGG Pathways:
EcoCyc Pathways:
Concentrations
Not Available
Spectra
Spectra:
Spectrum TypeDescriptionSplash Key
Predicted GC-MSPredicted GC-MS Spectrum - GC-MS (TMS_4_35) - 70eV, PositiveNot AvailableView in JSpectraViewer
Predicted LC-MS/MSPredicted LC-MS/MS Spectrum - 10V, Positivesplash10-0a7i-0301900000-731bc9348489f24f80ffView in MoNA
Predicted LC-MS/MSPredicted LC-MS/MS Spectrum - 20V, Positivesplash10-003r-0936800000-ade646bc1baf4b8851afView in MoNA
Predicted LC-MS/MSPredicted LC-MS/MS Spectrum - 40V, Positivesplash10-001r-0910000000-a7975e3a08f3a92a4ce2View in MoNA
Predicted LC-MS/MSPredicted LC-MS/MS Spectrum - 10V, Negativesplash10-00di-0000900000-53fa6981f67bce467289View in MoNA
Predicted LC-MS/MSPredicted LC-MS/MS Spectrum - 20V, Negativesplash10-0uml-1122900000-95a426dd0ca2a0207dbbView in MoNA
Predicted LC-MS/MSPredicted LC-MS/MS Spectrum - 40V, Negativesplash10-0006-9741000000-dbaf84d2dcb0c0d71757View in MoNA
References
References:
  • Kanehisa, M., Goto, S., Sato, Y., Furumichi, M., Tanabe, M. (2012). "KEGG for integration and interpretation of large-scale molecular data sets." Nucleic Acids Res 40:D109-D114. Pubmed: 22080510
  • Keseler, I. M., Collado-Vides, J., Santos-Zavaleta, A., Peralta-Gil, M., Gama-Castro, S., Muniz-Rascado, L., Bonavides-Martinez, C., Paley, S., Krummenacker, M., Altman, T., Kaipa, P., Spaulding, A., Pacheco, J., Latendresse, M., Fulcher, C., Sarker, M., Shearer, A. G., Mackie, A., Paulsen, I., Gunsalus, R. P., Karp, P. D. (2011). "EcoCyc: a comprehensive database of Escherichia coli biology." Nucleic Acids Res 39:D583-D590. Pubmed: 21097882
  • van der Werf, M. J., Overkamp, K. M., Muilwijk, B., Coulier, L., Hankemeier, T. (2007). "Microbial metabolomics: toward a platform with full metabolome coverage." Anal Biochem 370:17-25. Pubmed: 17765195
Synthesis Reference:Denis V; Daignan-Fornier B Synthesis of glutamine, glycine and 10-formyl tetrahydrofolate is coregulated with purine biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular & general genetics : MGG (1998), 259(3), 246-55.
Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)Not Available
External Links:
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CHEBI ID15637
HMDB IDHMDB00972
Pubchem Compound ID10
Kegg IDC00234
ChemSpider ID109092
Wikipedia10-formyl-tetrahydrofolate
BioCyc ID10-FORMYL-THF
EcoCyc ID10-FORMYL-THF

Enzymes

General function:
Involved in hydroxymethyl-, formyl- and related transferase activity
Specific function:
10-formyltetrahydrofolate + N(1)-(5-phospho-D- ribosyl)glycinamide = tetrahydrofolate + N(2)-formyl-N(1)-(5- phospho-D-ribosyl)glycinamide
Gene Name:
purN
Uniprot ID:
P08179
Molecular weight:
23238
Reactions
10-formyltetrahydrofolate + N(1)-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)glycinamide = tetrahydrofolate + N(2)-formyl-N(1)-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)glycinamide.
General function:
Involved in IMP cyclohydrolase activity
Specific function:
10-formyltetrahydrofolate + 5-amino-1-(5- phospho-D-ribosyl)imidazole-4-carboxamide = tetrahydrofolate + 5- formamido-1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)imidazole-4-carboxamide
Gene Name:
purH
Uniprot ID:
P15639
Molecular weight:
57329
Reactions
10-formyltetrahydrofolate + 5-amino-1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)imidazole-4-carboxamide = tetrahydrofolate + 5-formamido-1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)imidazole-4-carboxamide.
IMP + H(2)O = 5-formamido-1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)imidazole-4-carboxamide.
General function:
Involved in methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase activity
Specific function:
Modifies the free amino group of the aminoacyl moiety of methionyl-tRNA(fMet). The formyl group appears to play a dual role in the initiator identity of N-formylmethionyl-tRNA by:(I) promoting its recognition by IF2 and (II) impairing its binding to EFTu-GTP
Gene Name:
fmt
Uniprot ID:
P23882
Molecular weight:
34168
Reactions
10-formyltetrahydrofolate + L-methionyl-tRNA(fMet) + H(2)O = tetrahydrofolate + N-formylmethionyl-tRNA(fMet).
General function:
Involved in nucleotide binding
Specific function:
Catalyzes the oxidation of 5,10- methylenetetrahydrofolate to 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate and then the hydrolysis of 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate to 10- formyltetrahydrofolate. This enzyme is specific for NADP
Gene Name:
folD
Uniprot ID:
P24186
Molecular weight:
31044
Reactions
5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate + NADP(+) = 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate + NADPH.
5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate + H(2)O = 10-formyltetrahydrofolate.
General function:
Involved in ATP binding
Specific function:
Catalyzes two reactions:the first one is the production of beta-formyl glycinamide ribonucleotide (GAR) from formate, ATP and beta GAR; the second, a side reaction, is the production of acetyl phosphate and ADP from acetate and ATP
Gene Name:
purT
Uniprot ID:
P33221
Molecular weight:
42433
Reactions
Formate + ATP + 5'-phospho-ribosylglycinamide = 5'-phosphoribosyl-N-formylglycinamide + ADP + diphosphate.
General function:
Involved in amino acid binding
Specific function:
Produces formate from formyl-tetrahydrofolate. Provides the major source of formate for the purT-dependent synthesis of 5'-phosphoribosyl-N-formylglycinamide (FGAR) during aerobic growth. Has a role in regulating the one-carbon pool
Gene Name:
purU
Uniprot ID:
P37051
Molecular weight:
31934
Reactions
10-formyltetrahydrofolate + H(2)O = formate + tetrahydrofolate.
General function:
Involved in hydroxymethyl-, formyl- and related transferase activity
Specific function:
Bifunctional enzyme that catalyzes the oxidative decarboxylation of UDP-glucuronic acid (UDP-GlcUA) to UDP-4-keto- arabinose (UDP-Ara4O) and the addition of a formyl group to UDP-4- amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinose (UDP-L-Ara4N) to form UDP-L-4-formamido- arabinose (UDP-L-Ara4FN). The modified arabinose is attached to lipid A and is required for resistance to polymyxin and cationic antimicrobial peptides
Gene Name:
arnA
Uniprot ID:
P77398
Molecular weight:
74288
Reactions
UDP-alpha-D-glucuronate + NAD(+) = UDP-beta-L-threo-pentapyranos-4-ulose + CO(2) + NADH.
10-formyltetrahydrofolate + UDP-4-amino-4-deoxy-beta-L-arabinose = 5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate + UDP-4-deoxy-4-formamido-beta-L-arabinose.