CarA

• Description: carbamoyl-phosphate transferase-arginine (subunit A)
  
  

Gene name	carA
Synonyms	cpa
Essential	no
Product	carbamoyl-phosphate transferase-arginine (subunit A)
Function	biosynthesis of arginine
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Pyrimidines, Ammonium/ glutamate
MW, pI	38 kDa, 6.212
Gene length, protein length	1059 bp, 353 aa
Immediate neighbours	argD, carB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11230

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 2 ATP + L-glutamine + HCO₃^- + H₂O = 2 ADP + phosphate + L-glutamate + carbamoyl phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: glutamine amidotransferase type-1 domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): PyrAA

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P36838

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 6.3.5.5

Expression and regulation

• Operon: argC-argJ-argB-argD-carA-carB-argF

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed, repressed by arginine (AhrC)

• Regulatory mechanism: AhrC: transcription repression

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Knut Büttner, Rüdiger Bode, Michael Hecker
Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression modulated by amino acid availability.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(15);4288-95
[PubMed:12107147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Mountain, N H Mann, R N Munton, S Baumberg
Cloning of a Bacillus subtilis restriction fragment complementing auxotrophic mutants of eight Escherichia coli genes of arginine biosynthesis.
Mol Gen Genet: 1984, 197(1);82-9
[PubMed:6096675] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)