Cloned (Comment) | Organism |
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expression in Escherichia coli TOP10 cells | Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Synechocystis sp. PCC 6805 | - |
- |
- |
Purification (Comment) | Organism |
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from Synechocystis and from recombinant Escherichia coli cells | Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 |
Reaction | Comment | Organism | Reaction ID |
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ATP + [L-Asp(4-L-Arg)]n-L-Asp + L-Arg = ADP + phosphate + [L-Asp(4-L-Arg)]n+1 | i.e. the first reaction of cyanophycin synthesis, the second reaction is catalysed by the enzyme's other active centre | Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 |
Substrates | Comment Substrates | Organism | Products | Comment (Products) | Rev. | Reac. |
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ATP + [L-Asp(4-L-Arg)]n-L-Asp + L-Arg | a small amount of cyanophycin is required as a primer | Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 | ADP + phosphate + [L-Asp(4-L-Arg)]n+1 | no formation of AMP, [L-Asp(3-L-Arg)]n-Asp is the substrate for the second reaction catalysed by cyanophycin synthase | ? |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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CphA | - |
Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 |
cyanophycin synthetase | - |
Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 |