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N-acetylglutamate synthase NAGS/NAGK complex Overview

GO Annotations consist of four mandatory components: a gene product, a term from one of the three Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence code.


Summary
Required for the controlling initial step of L-arginine biosynthesis. Forms a metabolon, i.e. a complex formed by the supramolecular association of two sequentially acting enzymes of the pathway that synthesizes N(2)-acetyl-L-ornithine from L-glutamate. Regulated by arginine binding. The ARG5,6 kinase can exist independently of ARG2, ARG2 appears only to exist as a part of the metabolon. ARG5,6 may therefore also act as a chaperone and/or an essential stabilizing agent for ARG2.
GO Slim Terms

The yeast GO Slim terms are higher level terms that best represent the major S. cerevisiae biological processes, functions, and cellular components. The GO Slim terms listed here are the broader parent terms for the specific terms to which this gene product is annotated, and thus represent the more general processes, functions, and components in which it is involved.

acyltransferase activity, ion binding, kinase activity, transferase activity, amino acid metabolic process, biosynthetic process, small molecule metabolic process, cellular component