UniProt functional annotation for P38561

UniProt code: P38561.

Organism: Zea mays (Maize).
Taxonomy: Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Liliopsida; Poales; Poaceae; PACMAD clade; Panicoideae; Andropogonodae; Andropogoneae; Tripsacinae; Zea.
 
Function: Plays a role in the flow of nitrogen into nitrogenous organic compounds.
 
Catalytic activity: Reaction=ATP + L-glutamate + NH4(+) = ADP + H(+) + L-glutamine + phosphate; Xref=Rhea:RHEA:16169, ChEBI:CHEBI:15378, ChEBI:CHEBI:28938, ChEBI:CHEBI:29985, ChEBI:CHEBI:30616, ChEBI:CHEBI:43474, ChEBI:CHEBI:58359, ChEBI:CHEBI:456216; EC=6.3.1.2;
Subunit: Homooctamer.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm.
Tissue specificity: Found in all the tissues examined with higher expression found in tissues of the root.
Similarity: Belongs to the glutamine synthetase family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.