| Carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase (glutamine-hydrolysing) | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 6.3.5.5 | ||||||||
| CAS no. | 37233-48-0 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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| carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1, aspartate transcarbamylase, and dihydroorotase | |||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||
| Symbol | CAD | ||||||
| NCBI gene | 790 | ||||||
| HGNC | 1424 | ||||||
| OMIM | 114010 | ||||||
| RefSeq | NM_004341 | ||||||
| UniProt | P27708 | ||||||
| Other data | |||||||
| Locus | Chr. 2 p21 | ||||||
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Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (glutamine-hydrolysing) (EC 6.3.5.5) is an enzyme that catalyzes the reactions that produce carbamoyl phosphate in the cytosol (as opposed to type I, which functions in the mitochondria). Its systemic name is hydrogen-carbonate:l-glutamine amido-ligase (ADP-forming, carbamate-phosphorylating). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
In pyrimidine biosynthesis, it serves as the rate-limiting enzyme and catalyzes the following reaction:
It is activated by ATP and PRPP [9] and it is inhibited by UTP (Uridine triphosphate) [10] Neither CPSI nor CPSII require biotin as a coenzyme, as seen with most carboxylation reactions.
It is one of the four functional enzymatic domains coded by the CAD gene. [11] The CAD gene is a large gene. It uses a single strand to code for these enzyme jobs. It is classified under EC 6.3.5.5.