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Glutamine synthetase, N-terminal domain superfamily
SCOP classification
Superfamily statistics
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) [ 2900091] 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 [ 8096645, 2575672, 7916055]:
- 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
PDBeMotif resource
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Internal database links
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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.
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Alignments of sequences to 2 models
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Browse and view proteins in genomes which have
different domain combinations including a Glutamine synthetase, N-terminal domain domain.
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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.
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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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