Finding step artM for L-arginine catabolism in Escherichia coli BW25113
4 candidates for artM: L-arginine ABC transporter, permease component 1 (ArtM/HisM/AotM)
| Score | Gene | Description | Similar to | Id. | Cov. | Bits | Other hit | Other id. | Other bits |
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| hi | b2307 | histidine/lysine/arginine/ornithine transporter subunit (NCBI) | Histidine transport system permease protein HisM (characterized) | 100% | 100% | 475.3 | | | |
| hi | b0861 | arginine transporter subunit (NCBI) | Arginine ABC transporter permease protein ArtM (characterized) | 100% | 100% | 435.3 | NocM aka ATU6025 aka AGR_PTI_65, component of Nopaline porter | 39% | 157.9 |
| lo | b1918 | predicted transporter subunit: membrane component of ABC superfamily (NCBI) | Amino acid (Lysine/arginine/ornithine/histidine/octopine) ABC transporter membrane protein, component of Amino acid transporter, PA5152-PA5155. Probably transports numerous amino acids including lysine, arginine, histidine, D-alanine and D-valine (Johnson et al. 2008). Regulated by ArgR (characterized) | 36% | 95% | 134.4 | L-cystine transport system permease protein YecS | 100% | 433.7 |
| lo | b0810 | glutamine ABC transporter permease protein (NCBI) | ABC transporter for L-Arginine, permease component 2 (characterized) | 34% | 96% | 122.9 | Glutamine transport system permease protein GlnP aka B0810, component of Three component ABC L-glutamine porter. The basal ATPase activity (ATP hydrolysis in the absence of substrate) is mainly caused by the docking of the closed-unliganded state of GlnH onto the transporter domain of GlnPQ. Unlike glutamine, arginine binds both GlnH domains, but does not trigger their closing. Comparison of the ATPase activity in nanodiscs with glutamine transport in proteoliposomes suggested that the stoichiometry of ATP per substrate is close to two | 100% | 427.9 |
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transporter – transporters and PTS systems are shaded because predicting their specificity is particularly challenging.
GapMind searches the predicted proteins for candidates by using ublast (a fast alternative to protein BLAST) to find similarities to characterized proteins or by using HMMer to find similarities to enzyme models (usually from TIGRFams). For alignments to characterized proteins (from ublast), scores of 44 bits correspond to an expectation value (E) of about 0.001.
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Definition of step artM
- Curated sequence P0A2I7: Histidine transport system permease protein HisM. Histidine transport system permease protein HisM aka STM2352, component of Histidine/arginine/lysine/ornithine porter (Heuveling et al. 2014). In contrast to some homologous homodimeric systems, the heterodimeric histidine transporter of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium
- Curated sequence P0AEU3: Histidine transport system permease protein HisM. Histidine transport system permease protein HisM, component of Histidine/Arginine/Lysine (basic amino acid) uptake porter, HisJ/ArgT/HisP/HisM/HisQ [R, R, C, M, M, respectively] (Gilson et al. 1982). HisJ binds L-His (preferred), but 1-methyl-L-His and 3-methyl-L-His also bind, while the dipeptide carnosine binds weakly; D-histidine and the histidine degradation products, histamine, urocanic acid and imidazole do not bind. L-Arg, homo-L-Arg, and post-translationally modified methylated Arg-analogs also bind with the exception of symmetric dimethylated-L-Arg. L-Lys and L-Orn show weaker interactions with HisJ and methylated and acetylated Lys variants show poor binding.The carboxylate groups of these amino acids and their variants are essential. lysine/arginine/ornithine ABC transporter / histidine ABC transporter, membrane subunit HisM (EC 7.4.2.1)
- Curated sequence O50183: AotP aka AotM aka PA0890, component of Arginine/ornithine (but not lysine) porter
- Curated sequence Q9HU29: Amino acid (Lysine/arginine/ornithine/histidine/octopine) ABC transporter membrane protein, component of Amino acid transporter, PA5152-PA5155. Probably transports numerous amino acids including lysine, arginine, histidine, D-alanine and D-valine (Johnson et al. 2008). Regulated by ArgR
- Curated sequence BPHYT_RS07680: ABC transporter for L-Arginine, permease component 1
- Curated sequence GFF4243: ABC transporter for L-Arginine, permease component 2
- Curated sequence Pf1N1B4_3433: ABC transporter for L-Arginine and L-Citrulline, permease component 2
- Curated sequence AO353_03045: ABC transporter for L-Arginine and L-Citrulline, permease component 1
- Curated sequence AO356_18710: L-Arginine ABC transporter, permease component 1
- Curated sequence Pf6N2E2_5662: L-Arginine ABC transporter, permease protein AotM
- Curated sequence P0AE30: Arginine ABC transporter permease protein ArtM. Arginine transport system permease protein ArtM aka B0861, component of Arginine porter. L-arginine ABC transporter membrane subunit ArtM (EC 7.4.2.1). L-arginine ABC transporter membrane subunit ArtM (EC 7.4.2.1)
- Ignore hits to AO356_09910 when looking for 'other' hits (ABC transporter for L-Lysine, permease component 2)
- Ignore hits to Pf6N2E2_2960 when looking for 'other' hits (ABC transporter for L-Lysine, permease component 2)
- Ignore hits to AO356_05505 when looking for 'other' hits (ABC transporter for L-Lysine, permease component 2)
- Comment: ArtM and HisM are distantly related and were combined. TC 1.B.6.2.7 / F9GZA7 is annotated as ArtM but seems more likely to be an outer membrane porin, so it is not included. Ignore closely related lysine transporters from P. fluorescens (which may well transport arginine; AO356_09910 has a subtle defect in arginine utilization).
Or cluster all characterized artM proteins
This GapMind analysis is from Apr 09 2024. The underlying query database was built on Sep 17 2021.
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by Morgan Price, Arkin group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory