Glutamine synthetase (GS) (EC 6.3.1.2) is an enzyme that plays an essential role in the metabolism of nitrogen by catalyzing the condensation of glutamate...
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carbon source. Glutamine synthesis from glutamate and ammonia is catalyzed by the enzyme glutamine synthetase. The majority of glutamine production occurs...
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Glutamate synthase (redirect from Glutamine oxoglutarate aminotransferase)
glutamate from glutamine and α-ketoglutarate, and thus along with glutamine synthetase (abbreviated GS) plays a central role in the regulation of nitrogen...
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Theanine (redirect from N5-ethyl-L-glutamine)
L-gamma-glutamylethylamide or N5-ethyl-L-glutamine, is an amino acid analogue of the proteinogenic amino acids L-glutamate and L-glutamine and is found primarily in...
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Glufosinate (category Glutamine synthetase inhibitors)
glufosinate. The compound irreversibly inhibits glutamine synthetase, an enzyme necessary for the production of glutamine and for ammonia detoxification, giving...
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Methionine sulfoximine (category Glutamine synthetase inhibitors)
Methionine sulfoximine (MSO, also known as MetSox) is an irreversible glutamine synthetase inhibitor. It is the sulfoximine derivative of methionine with convulsant...
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Carbamoyl phosphate synthase II (redirect from Carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase (glutamine-hydrolysing))
Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (glutamine-hydrolysing) (EC 6.3.5.5) is an enzyme that catalyzes the reactions that produce carbamoyl phosphate in the...
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crucial for the glutamine-dependent activity. In other words, these residues allow CPS III to use glutamine as a substrate. The synthetase subunit stretches...
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aspartate. This amidation reaction is similar to that promoted by glutamine synthetase. The enzyme is ubiquitous in its distribution in mammalian organs...
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Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase catalyzes the ATP-dependent synthesis of carbamoyl phosphate from glutamine (EC 6.3.5.5) or ammonia (EC 6.3.4.16) and bicarbonate...
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