SUPERFAMILY 1.73 HMM library and genome assignments server


Glutamine synthetase, N-terminal domain superfamily

SCOP classification
Root:   SCOP hierarchy in SUPERFAMILY [ 0] (11)
Class:   Alpha and beta proteins (a+b) [ 53931] (334)
  Mainly antiparallel beta sheets (segregated alpha and beta regions)
Fold:   beta-Grasp (ubiquitin-like) [ 54235] (13)
  core: beta(2)-alpha-beta(2); mixed beta-sheet 2143
Superfamily:   Glutamine synthetase, N-terminal domain [ 54368]
Families:   Glutamine synthetase, N-terminal domain [ 54369]


Superfamily statistics
Genomes (1,075) UniProt 15.0 PDB chains (SCOP 1.73)
Domains 2,231 3,248 4
Proteins 2,231 3,248 4


Functional annotation
General category Metabolism
Detailed category Coenzyme metabolism and transport

Function annotation of SCOP domain superfamilies
InterPro annotation
Cross references IPR008147 SSF54368 Protein matches
Abstract

Glutamine synthetase (GS) [PubMed2900091] plays an essential role in the metabolism of nitrogen by catalyzing the condensation of glutamate and ammonia to form glutamine.

There seem to be three different classes of GS [PubMed8096645, PubMed2575672, PubMed7916055]:

  • Class I enzymes (GSI) are specific to prokaryotes, and are oligomers of 12 identical subunits. The activity of GSI-type enzyme is controlled by the adenylation of a tyrosine residue. The adenylated enzyme is inactive (see ).
  • Class II enzymes (GSII) are found in eukaryotes and in bacteria belonging to the Rhizobiaceae, Frankiaceae, and Streptomycetaceae families (these bacteria have also a class-I GS). GSII are octamer of identical subunits. Plants have two or more isozymes of GSII, one of the isozymes is translocated into the chloroplast.
  • Class III enzymes (GSIII) has, currently, only been found in Bacteroides fragilis and in Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens. It is a hexamer of identical chains. It is much larger (about 700 amino acids) than the GSI (450 to 470 amino acids) or GSII (350 to 420 amino acids) enzymes.

While the three classes of GS's are clearly structurally related, the sequence similarities are not so extensive.


InterPro database

PDBeMotif information about ligands, sequence and structure motifs
Cross references PDB entries
Ligand binding statistics
Nucleic-acid binding statistics
Occurrence of secondary structure elements
Occurrence of small 3D structural motifs

PDBeMotif resource

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Internal database links

Browse genome assignments for this superfamily. The SUPERFAMILY hidden Markov model library has been used to carry out SCOP domain assignments to all genomes at the superfamily level.


Alignments of sequences to 2 models in this superfamily are available by clicking on the 'Alignments' icon above. PDB sequences less than 40% identical are shown by default, but any other sequence(s) may be aligned. Select PDB sequences, genome sequences, or paste in or upload your own sequences.


Browse and view proteins in genomes which have different domain combinations including a Glutamine synthetase, N-terminal domain domain.


Examine the distribution of domain superfamilies, or families, across the major taxonomic kingdoms or genomes within a kingdom. This gives an immediate impression of how superfamilies, or families, are restricted to certain kingdoms of life.


Explore domain occurrence network where nodes represent genomes and edges are domain architectures (shared between genomes) containing the superfamily of interest.

There are 2 hidden Markov models representing the Glutamine synthetase, N-terminal domain superfamily. Information on how the models are built, and plots showing hydrophobicity, match emmission probabilities and insertion/deletion probabilities can be inspected.


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