Glutamine synthetase

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*'''Class II''' (GSII): Genes for this class have only been found in eukaryotes and a few soil-dwelling bacteria.The paper by Kumada gets into further detail about these bacteria. <ref name="Kumada"/>
*'''Class II''' (GSII): Genes for this class have only been found in eukaryotes and a few soil-dwelling bacteria.The paper by Kumada gets into further detail about these bacteria. <ref name="Kumada"/>
*'''Class III''' (GSIII): Genes from this class have only been found in a few bacterial species.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. <ref name="Brown"/> Brown ''et. al.''(1994) explain in their paper the idea that lateral gene transfer from archeal GSI may have happened and explain the gene mutation.<ref name="Brown"/>
*'''Class III''' (GSIII): Genes from this class have only been found in a few bacterial species.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. <ref name="Brown"/> Brown ''et. al.''(1994) explain in their paper the idea that lateral gene transfer from archeal GSI may have happened and explain the gene mutation.<ref name="Brown"/>
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[[Image:Glutamine-synthesis.jpg|thumb|left|400px| Figure 2: Two step process of sythesis of glutamine from glutamate, synthezised by glutamine synthesis.]]
 
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Glutamine synthetase complex with Mn+2 ion (PDB code 2gls)

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3D structures of glutamine synthetase

Updated on 29-April-2019

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kumada Y, Benson DR, Hillemann D, Hosted TJ, Rochefort DA, Thompson CJ, Wohlleben W, Tateno Y. Evolution of the glutamine synthetase gene, one of the oldest existing and functioning genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1993 Apr 1;90(7):3009-13. PMID:8096645
  2. ↑ He,Youji, Hakvoort,Theodorus, B.M., Kohler,S.Eleonor, Vermeulen,Jacqueline L.M.,Rudi de Waart, D., Theije,Chiel de, Gabrie A.M. ten Have, Van Eijk,Hans M.H., Kunne,Cindy, Labruyere,Wilelmina T., Houten,Sander M., Sokolovic,Mika, Tuijter,Jan M., Deutz,Nicolaas E.P., and Lamers, Wouter H. Glutamine Synthetase in muscle is required for glutamine production druing fasting and extrahepatic ammonia detoxification. The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, January 11, 2010
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Yamashita MM, Almassy RJ, Janson CA, Cascio D, Eisenberg D. Refined atomic model of glutamine synthetase at 3.5 A resolution. J Biol Chem. 1989 Oct 25;264(30):17681-90. PMID:2572586
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Brown JR, Masuchi Y, Robb FT, Doolittle WF. Evolutionary relationships of bacterial and archaeal glutamine synthetase genes. J Mol Evol. 1994 Jun;38(6):566-76. PMID:7916055
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