Definition: glutamyl-tRNA-Gln amidotransferase, subunit B
Cellular Location: Cytoplasm [Evidence]
Gene Start: 607823
Gene Stop: 606345
Gene Length: 1503
Molecular Weight*: 56475
pI*:
Net Charge*:
EC:
3.5.1.4 6.3.5.-
Functional Class: Translation; Amino acyl tRNA synthetases and tRNA modification
Gene Ontology:
Pathway:pathway table Alanine and aspartate metabolism Arginine and proline metabolism Benzoate degradation via CoA ligation Cyanoamino acid metabolism Glutamate metabolism Phenylalanine metabolism Styrene degradation Tryptophan metabolism
Secondary Evidence: Salazar JC, Zúñiga R, Raczniak G, Becker H, Söll D, Orellana O. A dual-specific Glu-tRNA(Gln) and Asp-tRNA(Asn) amidotransferase is involved in decoding glutamine and asparagine codons in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. FEBS Lett. 2001 Jul;500(3):129-31. PMID: 11445070
Curnow AW, Hong K, Yuan R, Kim S, Martins O, Winkler W, Henkin TM, Söll D. Glu-tRNAGln amidotransferase: a novel heterotrimeric enzyme required for correct decoding of glutamine codons during translation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 Oct;94(22):11819-26. PMID: 9342321
Nobelmann B, Lengeler JW. Molecular analysis of the gat genes from Escherichia coli and of their roles in galactitol transport and metabolism. J Bacteriol. 1996 Dec;178(23):6790-5. PMID: 8955298
Comment: Related 'gat' genes are glutamyl-tRNA-Gln amidotransferase subunit A (gatA) TDE0576 and the probable subunit C (gatC) TDE0577.
TDE0575 has significant similarity to the Treponema pallidum gene TP1021 (1e-170).
TDE0575 has significant similarity to the Borrelia burgdorferi gene 15594686 (1e-135).
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COGS Summary:COGS Search BeTs to clades of COG0064 COG name: Asp-tRNAAsn/Glu-tRNAGln amidotransferase B subunit (PET112 homolog) Functional Class: J The phylogenetic pattern of COG0064 is aom--zyqvdrlbc-f---nujxitw Number of proteins in this genome belonging to this COG is
Residues 24 to 305 match (2e-103) PD:PD002690 which is described as SUBUNIT B PROTEOME COMPLETE AMIDOTRANSFERASE LIGASE GLUTAMYL-TRNAGLN 6.3.5.- BIOSYNTHESIS GLU-ADT
Residues 328 to 492 match (8e-39) PD:PD309942 which is described as SUBUNIT B COMPLETE PROTEOME AMIDOTRANSFERASE LIGASE 6.3.5.- GLUTAMYL-TRNAGLN BIOSYNTHESIS GLU-ADT