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Clan: GCS (CL0286)

Summary

gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase/glutamine synthetase clan Add an annotation

This clan represents a superfamily of carboxylate-amine/ammonia ligases [1] that includes Gamma-Glutamylcysteine synthetase (gamma-GCS) and glutamine synthetase (GS). Gamma-Glutamylcysteine synthetase (gamma-GCS) catalyses the first step in the de novo biosynthesis of glutathione.

This clan contains 9 families and the total number of domains in the clan is 56026. The clan was built by A Bateman and J Pei.

Literature references

  1. Abbott JJ, Pei J, Ford JL, Qi Y, Grishin VN, Pitcher LA, Phillips MA, Grishin NV; , J Biol Chem. 2001;276:42099-42107.: Structure prediction and active site analysis of the metal binding determinants in gamma -glutamylcysteine synthetase. PUBMED:11527962 EPMC:11527962

Members

This clan contains the following 9 member families:

Amidoligase_2 ATP-gua_Ptrans DUF2126 GatB_N GCS GCS2 Gln-synt_C Glu_cys_ligase Pup_ligase

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Domain organisation

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Alignments

The table below shows the number of occurrences of each domain throughout the sequence database. More...

Pfam family Num. domains Alignment
Gln-synt_C (PF00120) 24915 (44.5%) View
GatB_N (PF02934) 9382 (16.7%) View
GCS2 (PF04107) 7350 (13.1%) View
ATP-gua_Ptrans (PF00217) 4270 (7.6%) View
Pup_ligase (PF03136) 2694 (4.8%) View
GCS (PF03074) 2138 (3.8%) View
Amidoligase_2 (PF12224) 1993 (3.6%) View
Glu_cys_ligase (PF04262) 1830 (3.3%) View
DUF2126 (PF09899) 1454 (2.6%) View
Total: 9 Total: 56026 Clan alignment
 

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Family relationships

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Species distribution

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Structures

For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the MSD group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt three-dimensional structures. The table below shows the mapping between the Pfam families in this clan, the corresponding UniProt entries, and the region of the three-dimensional structures that are available for that sequence.

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