Sources and Fates of Carbamyl Phosphate: A Labile Energy-Rich Molecule with Multiple Facets.

Authors

Dashuang Shi, George Washington University
Ljubica Caldovic, George Washington University
Mendel Tuchman, George Washington University

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

6-12-2018

Journal

Biology (Basel)

Volume

7

Issue

2

DOI

10.3390/biology7020034

Abstract

Carbamyl phosphate (CP) is well-known as an essential intermediate of pyrimidine and arginine/urea biosynthesis. Chemically, CP can be easily synthesized from dihydrogen phosphate and cyanate. Enzymatically, CP can be synthesized using three different classes of enzymes: (1) ATP-grasp fold protein based carbamyl phosphate synthetase (CPS); (2) Amino-acid kinase fold carbamate kinase (CK)-like CPS (anabolic CK or aCK); and (3) Catabolic transcarbamylase. The first class of CPS can be further divided into three different types of CPS as CPS I, CPS II, and CPS III depending on the usage of ammonium or glutamine as its nitrogen source, and whether

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APA Citation

Shi, D., Caldovic, L., & Tuchman, M. (2018). Sources and Fates of Carbamyl Phosphate: A Labile Energy-Rich Molecule with Multiple Facets.. Biology (Basel), 7 (2). http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology7020034

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