3ihl

Structural highlights

Function

[PYRG2_HUMAN] Catalyzes the ATP-dependent amination of UTP to CTP with either L-glutamine or ammonia as the source of nitrogen. Constitutes the rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of cytosine nucleotides.^{[1] [2]}

Evolutionary Conservation

Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.

References

1. ↑ van Kuilenburg AB, Meinsma R, Vreken P, Waterham HR, van Gennip AH. Identification of a cDNA encoding an isoform of human CTP synthetase. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2000 Jul 24;1492(2-3):548-52. PMID:10899599
2. ↑ Han GS, Sreenivas A, Choi MG, Chang YF, Martin SS, Baldwin EP, Carman GM. Expression of Human CTP synthetase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals phosphorylation by protein kinase A. J Biol Chem. 2005 Nov 18;280(46):38328-36. Epub 2005 Sep 22. PMID:16179339 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M509622200