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Carbamoyl-phosphate synthase arginine-specific Overview

GO Annotations consist of four mandatory components: a gene product, a term from one of the three Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence code.


Summary
Carbamoyl-phosphate synthase is a heterodimer consisting in the CPA1 and CPA2 subunits. CPS catalyzes the formation of carbamoyl phosphate from the ammonia moiety of glutamine, carbonate, and phosphate donated by ATP, as the first step in biosynthetic pathway leading to formation of arginine and/or urea. The small subunit (glutamine amidotransferase) binds and cleaves glutamine and the large subunit (synthetase) accepts the ammonia moiety cleaved from glutamine, binds all of the remaining substrates, and carries out all of the other catalytic events.
GO Slim Terms

The yeast GO Slim terms are higher level terms that best represent the major S. cerevisiae biological processes, functions, and cellular components. The GO Slim terms listed here are the broader parent terms for the specific terms to which this gene product is annotated, and thus represent the more general processes, functions, and components in which it is involved.

ion binding, ligase activity, amino acid metabolic process, biosynthetic process, nucleobase-containing small molecule metabolic process, small molecule metabolic process, cytoplasm