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==CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE: CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF GLUTAMINE HYDROLYSIS==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[1a9x]] is a 8 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli Escherichia coli]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1A9X OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=1A9X FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 1.8&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=ADP:ADENOSINE-5-DIPHOSPHATE'>ADP</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=CL:CHLORIDE+ION'>CL</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=CYG:2-AMINO-4-(AMINO-3-OXO-PROPYLSULFANYLCARBONYL)-BUTYRIC+ACID'>CYG</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=K:POTASSIUM+ION'>K</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=MN:MANGANESE+(II)+ION'>MN</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=NET:TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM+ION'>NET</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=ORN:L-ORNITHINE'>ORN</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=PO4:PHOSPHATE+ION'>PO4</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=1a9x FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=1a9x OCA], [https://pdbe.org/1a9x PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=1a9x RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/1a9x PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=1a9x ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/CARA_ECOLI CARA_ECOLI] 
== Evolutionary Conservation ==
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase from Escherichia coli catalyzes the production of carbamoyl phosphate from two molecules of Mg2+ATP, one molecule of bicarbonate, and one molecule of glutamine. The enzyme consists of two polypeptide chains referred to as the large and small subunits. While the large subunit provides the active sites responsible for the binding of nucleotides and other effector ligands, the small subunit contains those amino acid residues that catalyze the hydrolysis of glutamine to glutamate and ammonia. From both amino acid sequence analyses and structural studies it is now known that the small subunit belongs to the class I amidotransferase family of enzymes. Numerous biochemical studies have suggested that the reaction mechanism of the small subunit proceeds through the formation of the glutamyl thioester intermediate and that both Cys 269 and His 353 are critical for catalysis. Here we describe the X-ray crystallographic structure of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase from E. coli in which His 353 has been replaced with an asparagine residue. Crystals employed in the investigation were grown in the presence of glutamine, and the model has been refined to a crystallographic R-factor of 19.1% for all measured X-ray data from 30 to 1.8 A resolution. The active site of the small subunit clearly contains a covalently bound thioester intermediate at Cys 269, and indeed, this investigation provides the first direct structural observation of an enzyme intermediate in the amidotransferase family.

Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase: caught in the act of glutamine hydrolysis.,Thoden JB, Miran SG, Phillips JC, Howard AJ, Raushel FM, Holden HM Biochemistry. 1998 Jun 23;37(25):8825-31. PMID:9636022<ref>PMID:9636022</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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==See Also==
*[[Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase|Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase]]
*[[Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 3D structures|Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 3D structures]]
== References ==
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[[Category: Escherichia coli]]
[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Holden H]]
[[Category: Thoden J]]