The enzyme catalyses the reversible conversion of carbamoyl phosphate and ADP to ATP and carbamate, which hydrolyses to ammonia and hydrogencarbonate. The physiological role of the enzyme is to generate ATP.
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SYSTEMATIC NAME
IUBMB Comments
ATP:carbamate phosphotransferase
The enzyme catalyses the reversible conversion of carbamoyl phosphate and ADP to ATP and carbamate, which hydrolyses to ammonia and hydrogencarbonate. The physiological role of the enzyme is to generate ATP.
carbamate kinase with an anabolic role. The extreme living conditions of the pyrococci may render unnecessary the enzymatic synthesis of carbamate by carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase with the associated expenditure of an extra ATP molecule, as a prelude to making carbamoyl phosphate, explaining the use of carbamate kinase for carbamoyl phosphate synthesis in this organisms
carbamate kinase with an anabolic role. The extreme living conditions of the pyrococci may render unnecessary the enzymatic synthesis of carbamate by carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase with the associated expenditure of an extra ATP molecule, as a prelude to making carbamoyl phosphate, explaining the use of carbamate kinase for carbamoyl phosphate synthesis in this organisms
carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase and ornithine carbamoyltransferase form an efficient channeling cluster for carbamoyl phosphate, an extremely thermolabile and potentially toxic metabolic intermediate. Therefore, by physically interacting with each other, carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase and ornithine carbamoyltransferase prevent the thermodenaturation of carbamoyl phosphate in the aqueous cytoplasmic environment
physically interacting with each other, carbamate kinase and ornithine carbamoyltransferase prevent thermodenaturation of carbamoyl phosphate (a precursor of pyrimidines and arginine, which is an extremely labile and potentially toxic intermediate) in the aqueous cytoplasmic environment. The carbamoyl phosphate channelling complex involves carbamate kinase, ornithine carbamoyltransferase and aspartate carbamoyltransferase
crystals of the pyrococcal enzyme grown in the absence or presence of MgATP (Fig. 7) diffracted with a conventional X-ray source to at least 2.6 and 2.0 Å resolution, respectively
Ramon-Maiques, S.; Marina, A.; Uriarte, M.; Fita, I.; Rubio, V.
The 1.5 A resolution crystal structure of the carbamate kinase-like carbamoyl phosphate synthetase from the hyperthermophilic Archaeon pyrococcus furiosus, bound to ADP, confirms that this thermostable enzyme is a carbamate kinase, and provides insight into substrate binding and stability in carbamate kinases
New experimental approaches for investigating interactions between Pyrococcus furiosus carbamate kinase and carbamoyltransferases, enzymes involved in the channeling of thermolabile carbamoyl phosphate
Metabolic channelling of carbamoyl phosphate in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus: dynamic enzyme-enzyme interactions involved in the formation of the channelling complex
Metabolic channeling of carbamoyl phosphate, a thermolabile intermediate Evidence for physical interaction between carbamate kinase-like carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase and ornithine carbamoyltransferase from the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus