Protein Name argininosuccinate synthase 1
Organism Homo sapiens
Gene ID 445
Gene Symbol

ASS1

UniProt P00966 (ASSY_HUMAN), Q5T6L4 (Q5T6L4_HUMAN)
Relationships Total Number of functionally related compound(s) : 91
Total Number of Articles : 193
Description

argininosuccinate synthase 1

Gene Summary

The protein encoded by this gene catalyzes the penultimate step of the arginine biosynthetic pathway. There are approximately 10 to 14 copies of this gene including the pseudogenes scattered across the human genome, among which the one located on chromosome 9 appears to be the only functional gene for argininosuccinate synthetase. Mutations in the chromosome 9 copy of this gene cause citrullinemia. Two transcript variants encoding the same protein have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2012]

synonyms
  • argininosuccinate synthase
  • argininosuccinate synthetase 1
  • citrulline-aspartate ligase
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