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Overview
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Pathways & interactions
Family
Glycerate kinase (IPR004381)
Short name: Glycerate_kinase
Overlapping homologous superfamilies
- Glycerate kinase, flavodoxin-like fold (IPR018193)
- Glycerate kinase superfamily (IPR036129)
Family relationships
None.
Description
This family includes glycerate kinase 2 (EC:2.7.1.31), which catalyses the phosphorylation of (R)-glycerate to 3-phospho-(R)-glycerate in the presence of ATP. There are two glycerate kinases in E. coli, known as GKI and GKII [PMID: 4887503] and GKII is encoded by glxK [PMID: 5325263].
GO terms
Biological Process
GO:0031388 organic acid phosphorylation
Molecular Function
GO:0008887 glycerate kinase activity
Cellular Component
No terms assigned in this category.
Contributing signatures
Signatures from InterPro member databases are used to construct an entry.
TIGRFAMs
- TIGR00045 (TIGR00045)
PIRSF
- PIRSF006078 (GlxK)
Pfam
- PF02595 (Gly_kinase)
PANTHER
- PTHR21599 (PTHR21599)