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D-alanine catabolism in Azospirillum thiophilum BV-S

Best path

AZOBR_RS08235, AZOBR_RS08240, AZOBR_RS08245, AZOBR_RS08250, AZOBR_RS08260, dadA

Rules

Overview: GapMind describes D-alanine catabolism via D-alanine dehydrogenase, which forms pyruvate. This reaction is part of the MetaCyc pathway for L-alanine catabolism via D-alanine (link). In principle, D-alanine might also be catabolized via racemization to L-alanine and transamination to pyruvate, but this is not described here.

12 steps (10 with candidates)

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Step Description Best candidate 2nd candidate
AZOBR_RS08235 D-alanine ABC transporter, permease component 1 AL072_RS29560 AL072_RS26405
AZOBR_RS08240 D-alanine ABC transporter, permease component 2 AL072_RS29555 AL072_RS26410
AZOBR_RS08245 D-alanine ABC transporter, ATPase component 1 AL072_RS29550 AL072_RS06650
AZOBR_RS08250 D-alanine ABC transporter, ATPase component 2 AL072_RS29545 AL072_RS06655
AZOBR_RS08260 D-alanine ABC transporter, substrate-binding component AL072_RS29535 AL072_RS26400
dadA D-alanine dehydrogenase AL072_RS28760
Alternative steps:
cycA D-alanine:H+ symporter CycA
mctP D-alanine transporter MctP
Pf6N2E2_5402 ABC transporter for D-Alanine, substrate-binding component AL072_RS13325 AL072_RS23835
Pf6N2E2_5403 ABC transporter for D-Alanine, permease component 2 AL072_RS13320 AL072_RS18970
Pf6N2E2_5404 ABC transporter for D-Alanine, permease component 1 AL072_RS13315 AL072_RS23825
Pf6N2E2_5405 ABC transporter for D-Alanine, ATPase component AL072_RS13310 AL072_RS30385

Confidence: high confidence medium confidence low confidence
transporter – transporters and PTS systems are shaded because predicting their specificity is particularly challenging.

This GapMind analysis is from Sep 24 2021. The underlying query database was built on Sep 17 2021.

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Each pathway is defined by a set of rules based on individual steps or genes. Candidates for each step are identified by using ublast (a fast alternative to protein BLAST) against a database of manually-curated proteins (most of which are experimentally characterized) or by using HMMer with enzyme models (usually from TIGRFam). Ublast hits may be split across two different proteins.

A candidate for a step is "high confidence" if either:

where "other" refers to the best ublast hit to a sequence that is not annotated as performing this step (and is not "ignored").

Otherwise, a candidate is "medium confidence" if either:

Other blast hits with at least 50% coverage are "low confidence."

Steps with no high- or medium-confidence candidates may be considered "gaps." For the typical bacterium that can make all 20 amino acids, there are 1-2 gaps in amino acid biosynthesis pathways. For diverse bacteria and archaea that can utilize a carbon source, there is a complete high-confidence catabolic pathway (including a transporter) just 38% of the time, and there is a complete medium-confidence pathway 63% of the time. Gaps may be due to:

GapMind relies on the predicted proteins in the genome and does not search the six-frame translation. In most cases, you can search the six-frame translation by clicking on links to Curated BLAST for each step definition (in the per-step page).

For more information, see:

If you notice any errors or omissions in the step descriptions, or any questionable results, please let us know

by Morgan Price, Arkin group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory