Description

7,8-Dihydrobiopterin (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/7%2C8-Dihydrobiopterin) is an inhibitor of the enzyme dihydroneopterin (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/dihydroneopterin) aldolase (DHNA (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/DHNA)), which catalyzes the conversion of 7,8-Dihydrobiopterin (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/7%2C8-Dihydrobiopterin) to 6-hydroxymethyl-7,8-dihydropterin (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/6-hydroxymethyl-7%2C8-dihydropterin) and glycolaldehyde (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/glycolaldehyde).